This is Noir Kei Ninomiya’s first collection covered by Vogue.com and the resemblance to other Japanese taste makers is uncanny. Influences from Rei Kawakubo, June Wantanabe and Comme des Garçon are hard to miss in this collection. However, the way he cuts the motorcycle jackets and origami dresses is a peek …
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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 …
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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…. …
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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 …
Read More »London College of Fashion student, Sophie (Limin) Han was meant to “celebrate the confidence of different sizes of women in modern age” through her collection named ‘The Power of Fats’. It should have been named the ‘Kirstie Alley’ collection. I mean, are those ziplocked ham sammich’s as a skirt?? That’s …
Read More »Rei Kawakubo went down the wedding aisle for Comme des Garçon’s Spring collection. Seriously, each outfit could’ve been a wedding dress of some sort of really artsy person’s wedding (I’m looking at you Nooni Schoener.) Having an entire collection in one color is pretty risky, but to have them paired …
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