A revelatory look at the influential and enigmatic designer behind Comme des Garçons
The great pantheon of fashion designers produces only a handful of creators who are masters of their métier. Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons is one of them. Widely recognized among her contemporaries as the most important and influential designer of the past forty years, she has, since her Paris debut in 1981, defined and transformed the aesthetics of our time. This lavishly illustrated publication examines Kawakubo’s fascination with interstitiality, or the space between boundaries. Existing within and between dualities—whether self/other, object/subject, art/fashion—Kawakubo’s work challenges the rigid divisions that have come to define received notions of identity and fashionability, inviting us to rethink fashion as a site of constant creation, re-creation, and, ultimately, hybridity. Featuring brilliant new photography, and thought-provoking texts by Andrew Bolton, this book expresses the conceptual and challenging aesthetic of this visionary designer. An insightful interview and illustrated chronology of Kawakubo’s career provide additional context.
安德鲁•博尔顿（Andrew Bolton），知名时尚策展人，就学于东安格利亚大学，学习非西方艺术并获硕士学位，曾在伦敦维多利亚与阿尔伯特博物馆工作九年，于2002年加入大都会艺术博物馆，现为大都会艺术博物馆时装学院主策展人。他已策划数场备受瞩目的时尚展览，出版多部著作 ，并为艺术与时尚类出版物撰稿。
川久保玲（Rei Kawakubo）： 日本时装设计师，出生于东京，毕业于庆应义塾大学。1973年成立了服饰品牌 “Comme des Garcons”。她和山本耀司、三宅一生被称为日本时装设计的三驾马车，是对当代服装设计影响最大的设计师之一。
