Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between
Baron & Baron, New York, New York, 2017
Description
Widely recognized as among the most important and influential designers of the past 40 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.
Credits
- Design firm
- Baron & Baron
- Creative directors
- Fabien Baron, Yuki Iwashiro, Baron & Baron
- Designers
- Fabien Baron, Yuki Iwashiro, Baron & Baron
- Jacket designers
- Fabien Baron, Yuki Iwashiro, Baron & Baron
- Photographers
- Nicholas Alan Cope, Inez and Vinoodh, Inez and Vinoodh, Katerina Jebb, Kazumi Kurigami, Ari Marcopoulos, Craig McDean, Bridgette Niedermair, Paolo Roversi, Coolier Schorr
- Production director
- Gwen Roginsky
- Production coordinator
- Paul Booth
- Author
- Andrew Bolton
- Editor
- Nancy E. Cohen
- Photo research
- Jenn Sherman
- Image permissions
- Jenn Sherman
- Separations
- Professional Graphics
- Trim size
- 11 x 14.25 inches
- Pages
- 248
- Quantity printed
- 40,000
- Typeface
- Baron One
- Painter
- Ofset Yapimevi
- Jacket printer
- Ofset Yapimevi
- Paper
- Munken Polar 150 gsm
- Binder
- Ofset Yapimevi
- Binding methods
- Hardcover paper over board, Smith sewn
- Publisher
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art