COMME DES GARCONS news and archive

Fashion beyond the binary

If you've ever seen a Comme des Garçons fashion show, it is unlikely that you raced to order one of Rei Kawakubo's catwalk looks, which are mostly steeped in abstract notions and avant-garde constructivism. Yet it is in the ever-evolving landscape of style, and what we have come to expect of fashion, that we find ourselves trapped in false...

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Comme des Garçons to release newest collaboration with Nike

Japanese label Comme des Garçons has revealed its latest collaboration with sportswear giant Nike, in the form of the Air Foamposite One. The shoe initially debuted in Tokyo on the Comme des Garçons runway, for its AW21 line entitled ‘Darkroom’. The name hints at the method designer Rei Kawakubo adopted in the process of designing the shoe,...

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Nordstrom collaborates with Dover Street Market Paris

American department store chain Nordstrom has partnered with Comme des Garçons owned concept store Dover Street Market Paris to highlight emerging designers in the fashion industry. The collaboration will feature seven individual up-and-coming brands curated by Dover Street that introduce their spring/summer 2021 collections in select Nordstrom...

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In pictures: Dover Street Market opens Paris store

Comme Des Garçons-owned concept store Dover Street Market has opened a new shop at 54 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris. The new, small space, aptly called Dover Little Street Market, showcases seven brands that are part of the Dover Street Market Paris Company’s brand development division, an incubator of emerging talent launched last year....

Podcast

Podcast: Michelle Elie discusses collecting designer streetwear fashion

In this edition of Fashion Your Seatbelt, American-Haitian born jewelry designer and former model, Michelle Elie expresses her love of avant-garde fashion designer, Rei Kawakubo. Elie collects, and regularly wears, pieces Kawakubo designed for her Comme des Garçons brand. In this podcast the designer discusses why she loves streetstyle and the...

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Fashion critic Suzy Menkes and her 3 most favorite runway shows.

SHOWstudio has invited Suzy Menkes, fashion critic, journalist and editor at Vogue to reveal her top three catwalk shows for a series of videos called Narrated Catwalk. Lumps and Bumps (SS 97) by Comme des Garçons, Black and White (SS 93) by Maison Martin Margiela and Christian Lacroix’s Haute Couture (AW 89) commented with Suzy’s passion and...

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Michelle Elie -The Fearless Fashion Collector

Michelle Elie is an American-Haitian jewelry designer and former fashion model. She is many times captured by the lens of street style photographers at Paris Fashion Week shows and that is because she is a passionate fan of Rei Kawakubo designs for her brand Comme des Garçons. In fact, she is a collector of the garments from Kawakubo. She...

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Art of the In-Between: Rei Kawakubo at The Met

Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between was the museum’s first monographic exhibition on a living designer since Yves Saint Laurent in 1983. “Season after season, collection after collection, she upends conventional notions of beauty and disrupts accepted characteristics of the fashionable body,” said curator Andrew Bolton. “Her...

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Comme des Garcons accused of racism in AW20 menswear show

Japanese fashion brand Comme des Garcons was at the centre of a cultural appropriation row Sunday after it sent out white models in what appeared to be cornrow wigs at its Paris men's fashion week show. The self-appointed fashion watchdog Diet Prada -- which has a record of pulling up labels on racial insensitivity including the notorious Gucci...

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Gucci and Comme des Garçons unveil new collaboration

Gucci has launched the second piece of an ongoing collaboration with Comme des Garçons. The two luxury labels began their partnership last December, debuting at the time a shopper tote. The second phase of the Gucci x Comme des Garçons project is a different shopper tote which, like its predecessor, melds the design codes of both brands in an...

Retail

In Pictures: Dover Street Market opens Los Angeles store

Four years after its debut in London, Dover Street Market has opened its sixth location in Los Angeles. The concept store, founded by Comme des Garçons’ Rei Kawakubo and her husband Adrian Joffe, is best known for its resemblance with an art gallery. Designed by Kawakubo herself, the LA location spans over 15,000 square feet and features corners...

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Store, café or art gallery? The rise and rise of the concept store

These aren’t easy times for brick and mortar fashion retailers. As e-commerce grows and consumer behavior changes, the US has seen over 7,000 store closings in 2017. Investment bank Credit Suisse even predicts 25 percent of American shopping malls to close by 2022. The UK is no different, with an average of 16 high street stores closing every...