Description
New York, Rizzoli International Publications, 1990
Paperback, 21 x 21 cm, 160 pages, illustrated in color and black and white. English. ISBN 9780847811960
Monograph on Rei Kawakubo and Comme des Garçons, written by Deyan Sudjic, director of the Design Museum, London. The book is divided into four chapters, followed by a Bibliography and a chronology. Illustrated with pictures from lookbooks, runway shots, shop interiors and behind the scenes. Very thorough look at the enigmatic fashion house and its founder.
Introduction Starting from Zero
Chapter One The Making of a Collection
Chapter Two Building an Empire
Chapter Three Red is Black
Chapter Four Fashion and DesignSince Rei Kawakubo made her startling, monochrome
debut at the Paris Fashion show in 1981, her challenging
designs for Comme des Garçons have gripped the
imagination of the fashion-buying public and press.
Refusing to accept conventional stereotypes,
Kawakubo wants nothing less than to reinvent the role
of the fashion designer. Her clothes, radical experiments
in fabric and form, are closer to sculpture than to the
traditional view of fashion as body packaging. With
remarkable consistency and single-mindedness,
Kawakubo has applied the same highly personal vision
to every aspect of her international empire – to
packaging, shop interiors and even to furniture.
Deyan Sudjic goes behind the scenes at the Paris
collections and visits Japanese textile mills, cutting
rooms and department stores to trace the rise of a self
taught designer who has become an international
fashion leader and a major figure in the transformation
of modern Japan.Published by Rizzoli
A Blueprint MonographISBN 0-8478-1196-4
A good copy, with some shelf wear. Upper right corner with a tiny crease.
