Comme des Garçons Shirt Spring 2023 Menswear

Comme des Garçons Shirt Spring 2023 Menswear

Rei Kawakubo has said that if she could have invented one garment, it would have been the white shirt. “It’s a fundamental part of a man’s wardrobe,” her husband, translator, and company CEO, Adrian Joffe, said on her behalf. “Shirt, jacket, and pants are the fundamental basis.”

There’s irony in the fact that Comme des Garçons operates a menswear brand called Shirt, dedicated to finding myriad ways to deconstruct a button-down.

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Comme des Garçons Homme Plus Spring 2021 Menswear

Comme des Garçons Homme Plus Spring 2021 Menswear Fashionado Vogue

Rei Kawakubo envisaged protecting men with a layer of silver as she was devising her Homme Plus spring collection: “It is my wish that the strength of metal, the strength that wouldn’t yield to any pressure or force, and the strength that will give birth to hope to overcome the various hardships we face, will all overlap in this collection.”

“Metal Outlaw” was the title she came up with. And yes, the silver was a smart choice, reading luminously onscreen in what must have been one of the first seasons in decades that Comme des Garçons has not flown to Paris to show. Over the past couple of years, the imagery of Kawakubo’s shows has often communicated the sense of impending dystopia at the door, the designs manifesting the human reaction to it, flip-flopping between fear and the frantic impulse to dance, seize the day. This wasn’t like that: now that a completely unforeseen enemy has arrived to assail the whole of humanity, Kawakubo chose to resist the darkness and opt for communicating the quest for inner resilience. The clothes didn’t look like armor, retro space suits, or science-lab uniforms—the stock readings that silver will usually trigger. Instead, it was as if Kawakubo wanted to show a spiritual aura being generated from within, radiating from the silvery crinkles and wrinkles embedded in the surfaces of her rakish tailoring.

Comme des Garçons Homme Plus Spring 2021 Menswear Fashionado Vogue

Surmounting and adapting to the problems of working during isolation, Kawakubo had made a conceptual projection from an interior landscape onto clothes (NB: the incorporation of furniture, kitchen, and other indoor materials into 2020’s lockdown collections will make a Ph.D. study one day). Kawakubo said that it was contemplating the metallic materials she often uses in interiors that started her off. “Said,” that is, in show notes that arrived at the inboxes of members of the international press. The mini show was put on at Comme de Garçons’ Tokyo headquarters in front of 43 members of staff and a handful of local journalists.

Projections of work by the Brazilian artist and photojournalist Alberto Bitar flowed across the white space. Emerging from a cylindrical structure—a dressing room, maybe—the Metal Outlaws were wearing two variations of Comme tailoring themes: skinny-leg suits or baggy-short suits. What were the silver materials? Hard to be definitive, but some were crushed, some apparently foiled and printed, some with the appearance of leather (though Comme is a house that is firmly wedded to synthetics).

Whatever, this compressed collection fully consolidated Homme Plus characteristics as a house that has distinctive, tradition-bending cuts—alternative but not out to place men in the realms of conceptual clothing. If a full silver suit doesn’t appeal, Kawakubo proceeded to break it down into patchworks of suiting, cycling from traditional menswear lightweight wool to a sparky, for-the-kids section of lime, cornflower blue and yellow, and then wrapping up with a couple of dark tuxedos, with the silver reserved to lining the lapels. As a vote for optimism against the odds, it raised a smile.

Source: Vogue

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COMME des GARÇONS Drops Exclusive "EMERGENCY Special" Collection

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COMME des GARÇONS has released a limited-edition collection titled “EMERGENCY Special,” which is set to release inline with the re-opening of retail stores in France and alongside a reservation program in Japanese outposts.

Each COMME des GARÇONS store in Japan will allow customers to shop via appointment only and in limited numbers. However, to celebrate the re-openings, the Rei Kawakubo-helmed label has worked on a collection that centers around positive phrases, reminding us of the good causes behind staying at home and taking mass social action to combat the coronavirus crisis.

As a result, T-shirts, windbreaker jackets and tote bags have been emblazoned with the phrases “believe in a better tomorrow,” “thinking and doing will result in the future,” and “on to the future, with good energy.” The text is presented in a hand-applied look, looking as if it could be found on a homemade sign.

The collection ranges from approximately $47 USD to $130 USD, and can be ordered exclusively through COMME des GARÇONS stores.

Source: HypeBeast

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Comme des Garçons Fall 2017 Ready-To-Wear

The Future of Silhouette.” That's about all the evidence that Rei Kawakubo revealed about Comme des Garçons Fall 2017 Ready-To-Wear collection... and that's okay! It's really more than enough information. Rei Kawakubo is an artist and fashion design is her medium.

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Met Gala announces 2017 theme: Comme des Garçons’s Rei Kawakubo

“Rei Kawakubo is one of the most important and influential designers of the past forty years,” said the Costume Institute’s curator in charge, Andrew Bolton. “By inviting us to rethink fashion as a site of constant creation, recreation, and hybridity, she has defined the aesthetics of our time.”

This is not only exciting but big, big news since Rei Kawakubo will be the first living designer to serve as the theme and inspiration of the Met Gala since Yves Saint Laurent. 

Vogue's Met Gala is fashion's biggest soiree bringing out an elite guest list of fashion designers and celebrities. Katy Perry and Pharrell Williams will cochair the event along with Anna Wintour of course. The Met Gala will take place on May 1, 2017. 

The Costume Institute exhibit will feature 120 looks from Comme des Garçons/Rei Kawakubo.

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Comme des Garçons Spring 2017

Runway: Comme des Garçons Spring 2017.

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Comme des Garçons Homme Plus "The King Is Naked" Spring 2017 Menswear

Comme des Garçons Homme Plus "The King Is Naked" Spring 2017 Menswear.

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