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Rei Kawakubo's fashion shows are not solely about fabric, cut, and shape but also about the emotional suspense they create, a walking art form. Her fall 2009 for Comme des Garçons is one of her many collections that acts that way.

We´ve decided to add a new "series of fixed theme-posts", titled "Archive". I guess that you already got an idea of what is about. Everything has its own archive and it´s fascinating, inspiring, if not also educative to re-see how the stuff were done in the past and/or how they evolved/still evolving…etc. Focused more on fashion, architecture, art and industrial design, we want to bring you a glimpse of the past. Actually it´s not the first time that the site is doing posts about a past (do you remember our posts titled "past-view"?), but never become a true, constant thing. We couldn´t choose a better protagonist to break the ice. Nearly 50 years active in the fashion business, Comme des Garçons is a brand or more suitable to say a real institution, known for being ultra-revolutionary; a sort of a "limbo" between art and fashion, avoiding any possible rules dictated by the business. In all those years many photographers and artists, like Peter Lindbergh and Cindy Sherman (just to name few), collaborated with a brand to create unforgettable and inspiring ads, thirty of them are here ready for a re-visit.

NOVELTIES #16

THE ARTIST IS ABSENT

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“I knew he could do something great,” says Jean Paul Gaultier about Martin Margiela in the 12-minute length new documentary about the well-known incognito fashion couturier. The film, originally screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, shows us designer´s history – from his 90´s deconstruction days till the end of his work as designer in the mid- 00`s.

Enoy it below…

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HOUSE OF HOLLAND launches menswear

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S/S 2013 // COMME DES GARçONS / WOMEN / PARIS FASHION WEEK

FASHION INTERVIEWS // REI KAWAKUBO

Since she launched her Comme des Garçons (French for "like the boys") fashion brand 41 years ago, Rei Kawakubo has always played by her own rules. Fascinated by challenging conventional standards of beauty, she's reconstructed "hybrid" clothes, sewn the left half of a jacket onto the right half of a different jacket and designed asymmetrical dresses made from her own vintage scarves—and that was all just in her last women's presentation. It's never just about creating something to wear, but rather expressing an idea.

Comme des Garçons Homme Plus Men's RTW Fall 2010 / PFW-Day02

If a three-piece suit includes a vest, at Comme des Garçons, it was more like a bulletproof vest or a breastplate. And a fourth piece completed the set, a crotchless culotte layered over the trousers and secured with utility clips down the sides. For more protection and function, suits were inserted with elbow guards and other padding. A funnel-shaped bonnet and long, furry vests provided shelter from the elements. But above all, these things offered security against looking conventional.