#in-betweenness

Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between at the MET Costume Institute - Part 1 of 2

The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art presents a retrospective of the some of the radical fashion created by designer Rei Kawakubo for Comme des Garçons with their new exhibition, Art of the In-Between.

Challenging the divide between art and fashion, Kawakubo has played a pivotal role in challenging the constraints of the conventional fashion silhouette and redefining concepts of beauty and fashionability.

The MET exhibition divides the work into nine experiments that show how Kawakubo has played with the concept of "in-betweenness" — the space between boundaries. The nine states of interstitiality include Absence/Presence, Design/Not Design, Fashion/Anti-Fashion, Model/Multiple, Then/Now, High/Low, Self/Other, Object/Subject and Clothes/Not Clothes. With the resulting pieces, Kawakubo manages to expose the arbitrary nature of the boundaries our society has created throughout time and seeks to capitalize on their differences by combining them.

Part 1 of 2 sets of photographs by Blair Prentice from the Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between exhibition at the MET. The exhibition runs from May 4th – September 4, 2017.

Photography by Blair Prentice of iheartmyart.com

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See Set 2 of 2 of photographs from the exhibition. 

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Ask yourself if you could do it if it wasn’t for money. ^^

....Hair. That's what my shampoo says on its packaging. Each morning I see it in the shower, I chuckle. I take it not only as a reminder that my hair is indeed "unruly and rebellious", but also, due to the vocabulary choice, as a statement with deeper meaning. I can almost hear a baritone voiceover in that shower scene singing those exact words and then stopping abruptly. The cue takes me to my childhood.

Since childhood, I've always wanted straight hair. My hair is neither curly nor straight. It's that in-between wavy and thick hair. I think what has bothered me most all this time is that "in-betweenness". That desire to take something to either end of the spectrum while you are stuck somewhere "in-between". Vagueness. Complexity. Imbalance.