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Rei Kawakubo Comme des Garçons

Art of the In-Between

Andrew Bolton

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2017, 248 pages, 28.7 x 3.3 x 36.58 cm., 205 color illus., pull-out color poster, ISBN  978-1588396204 

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Widely recognized as among the most important and influential designers of the past forty years, Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons has defined and transformed the visual language of our time. Since her Paris debut in 1981, she has blurred the divide between art and fashion and transformed customary notions of the body, beauty and identity. This lavishly illustrated publication weaves an illuminating narrative around Kawakubo's revolutionary experiments in interstitiality—the space between boundaries. Brilliant new photographs of more than 120 examples of Kawakubo's womenswear for Comme des Garçons, accompanied by Kawakubo's commentary on her designs and creative process, reveal her conceptual and challenging aesthetic as never before. A chronology of Kawakubo's career provides additional context, and an insightful conversation with the author offers a fascinating glimpse into the mind of this fashion visionary.

07/11/20

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

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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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Metropolitan Museum of Art: Website Blair Prentice: Website | Facebook

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