After the Dust...

''After the dust'' as Rei Kawakubo titles the 2026 Spring/Summer collection.

An almost prescient expression for the history of the store. After years of dusty absence caused by the closure in 2020, the most representative line of the Japanese Maison finally comes 'back home': Comme des Garçons.

In so far as 'Comme-Comme' isn't hierarchically inferior to its originator Comme des Garçons, it's however with this line that the designer puts her own seasonal meta-narrations on stage.

The shows of Rei Kawakubo are textile manifestations of prospectives and aesthetic interpretations of our time, they convey a message beyond the form of a simple piece of clothing.

As GiltMagazine writes:

There's a different kind of silence during Comme des Garçons' shows. Not one of expectation, but one of thought that prepares to be shaken.

Convinced advocate of a type of clothing which, in its creative potential, becomes medium of content beyond fashion, Rei Kawakubo challenges the critical sense of the public installing narrative cues between folds and cuts, overlaps, contrasts and textile provocations, formal and chromatic.

The models don't wear clothing, but complex structures, with head-dresses and costumes evocative of cultures and impressions far away from the ordinary everyday life, almost shamanic.

The sound track is an integral part of an atmosphere which suggests the plot of the seasonal work.

The guttural vocalisms of the Spanish singer Fatima Miranda, Desosasiego (translated as: restlessness) don't mark the rhythm of the exits, but mainly the connections of sense and possible meanings.

With a post show statement, the designer provides a precious clue:

I believe in positivity and in the value which can be born from the damaging of perfect things.

An optimistic note, manifestly hovering on the concentrated and amused faces of the spectators, a critical and alternative prospective, an act of rebellion and a hope beyond every space-time conjunction of monotony and dull resignation.

Our seasonal sales continue and, especially in lighter weights, they become ideal for a period of milder and welcoming temperatures.

As the video displays, in the show-room the language subsides to viable and easily wearable suggestions, Comme des Garçons style.