Comme Des Garçons

The exuberant creativity of Rei Kawakubo, known as Comme des Garçons, seems seriously intent on dismantling one of the fundamental tenets of fashion, which holds that clothing revolves around the body. The collection covers, deforms, inflates, and fills a substance forced to adapt as a mere support for the idea-form underlying the sculptural project: the garment.

A garment, therefore, as an extension of thought rather than the physique, and perhaps for this very reason, uncontainable, if not indefinable. However, the connection to reality and the practical needs of daily life is maintained through the ingenious solution of being able to remove the deforming prosthetics and resize the work of art into an exceptional piece of haute couture, where the quality of the fabrics and the expertise of the asymmetrical lines prevail over any radical inspiration.