Comme des Garçons and Yohji Yamamoto, books!

After the recent volume by Taschen on the Pleats Please by Issey Miyake, the most important European publishing house specialised in art, architecture and design is about to publish two monographs on the work of another two excellent names of the so-called Japanese school: Rei Kawakubo-Comme des Garçons and Yohji Yamamoto. In December, publication is planned of:

-The art of anti-fashion. Yohji Yamamoto: The fashion designer who redesigned fashion

and

-Conceptual clothing. The history and the art of Kawakubo's brand

Two different surveys, including images and interviews with photographers, artists, intellectuals and experts, on the professional and artistic philosophy of the two designers who, in different ways, have destabilised traditional western fashion codes. Rei Kawakubo, more conceptual than subversive,

Yohji Yamamoto, more abstract and rigorous,

both supporting clothing with a high artistic value, cultured and complex, often difficult to assimilate and understand.

While awaiting these precious pieces to be added to our fashion and design library, we would like to share with you a wonderful documentary on the last exhibition at the Institut Français de la Mode in Paris, dedicated to the White Drama collection (spring/summer 2012) of Comme des Garçons...

Perhaps it is these more far reaching experiences and the need to intercept prepared, independent interlocutors, as well as measuring oneself on more talented ground, that explain the recent accusation made by Rei Kawakubo against the media...

I think the media has some responsibility to bear for people becoming more conservative. Many parts of the media have created the situation where uninteresting fashion can thrive... (Rei Kawakubo, 19/11/2012, Women’s Wear Daily)

Thanks for the images to: Taschen and Grandma Stole My Closet