Comme Des Garcon

After seeing the Comments Des Garçon exhibit at The Met a few months ago, I have a new appreciation for the craftsmanship and quality that goes into each runway piece from the designer, Rei Kawakubo. Honestly, a photo doesn’t do any justice to the textures and stitching and whatnot that …

           I had the pleasure of visiting The Metropolitan Museum in NYC last week and catching the Rei Kawakubo/ Comme des Garçon Exhibit before it comes to a close next month. It’s one thing to see these pieces of art in a magazine or on a computer monitor…. …

The spotlight is on designer Rei Kawakubo with the opening of her retrospective at The Metropolitan Museum in NYC. She is only the living designer that The Met has actually done an entire exhibition on. That’s a pretty amazing accomplishment. Her latest collection is all about no silhouette…. what if …

Comme Des Garçon always serves up impractical fashion at its finest. Here are the conversations that must go on in a Comme Des Garçon design room: “Sitting is so passé! What? Use the bathroom?? What’s that? Going through a door that’s NOT a French door…. impossible! Scratching an itch on …

If The Emperor’s New Clothes was a real life drama, Comme Des Garcon would have been hired as the costume designer. His men’s spring collection was full of clear jackets, primitive threads depicting barely-there garments, and crowns made out of hair. Was it a poke at the fashion industry, itself? Perhaps, …

Wowie Wow wow!! These outfits were like a wallpaper of an 18th century powder room, Japanese armor and Pre-schooler with scissor and glue were thrown into a dark room for 4 hours. What I mean by that is that it was pretty DAMN COOL! Although, I wouldn’t wear it to …

On my most recent trip to New York City, I had the wonderful privilege to visit the ‘Manus X Machina’ exhibit at The Metropolitan Museum of New York. Sponsored by Apple, the exhibit displayed a ravishing collection of couture items from designers like, Chanel, Comme Des Garçon, Iris Van Herpin …