with creation as her sword

1991

“Maybe the fact that it’s such hard work to do what I do and so much torture and living in hell and getting so tired working dawn to midnight every day for the last 40 years—maybe that would be called a failure in some sense”

Empress Michiko of Japan in CDG pearls

BLACKPEPPER is an electric collision of molecules: the crash of spicy pepper seeds suspended within infinite darkness. A powerful subversion of olfactive convention. An incessant investigation of the perpetually unknown. Warm, dry Madagascan Pepper cracks against fiery Cedarwood. Rich, fragrant Akigalawood (Patchouli, Agarwood) fuses with the caramel resin of Tonka Bean. Precious seeds and opulent woods blend in blazing harmony, laced with a musky accord. A profound reinvent ion of familiar exoticism: spice is deconstructed, destabilized, decoded. A resonant reverberation of dynamic intensity. Spice, seen through the transformative gaze of Comme des Garçons.

Adrian Joffe in an interview conducted by Anja Aronowsky Cronberg for Vestoj’s sixth issue, ‘On Failure’, released this month. 

COMME DES GARCONS - SPRING/SUMMER - 2016 from PREMICES FILMS

CdG bedsheets