A full program for the most recent Comme des Garçons program, even more individuals standing than resting inside a messy obsolete office complex on a dilapidated block in the 9th arrondissement.
The fragments of the area resembled in the deconstruction of the clothing– one more seductive expression of stylish art by Comme developer, Rei Kawakubo.
A program including brand-new variants of attempted and checked Kawakubo techniques– from inside out coats to scrunched and ground designs.
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Opening up with a multitude of collection of steamed woollen, diminished, torn and sometimes hardly sewed coats put on with culottes and incredibly pintucked trousers done in white. All had fantastic magnetism. One can not assist however be attracted by their faintly insane high quality.
” White is symbolic of petition,” was Kawakubo’s sibylline remark in her program notes.
Following came a team of within as outdoors coats, a requiring wear however a striking entry manufacturer. Prior to Rei entered into overdrive with a fantastic collection of calico hacking coats stitched with London Pearly Guys patterns.
Completed with her ideal flow, a quartet of fantastic gangster-worthy light grey chalk-stripe fits, though cut for a poet. Pete Doherty-style diminished fits, that made a Thom Browne shape resemble a Balenciaga cocoon. Used with matching shorts of felty sweatpants, by versions showing off fashionable blonde white wigs.
Kawakubo, as is her practice, took no bow. Though one can welcome her in the little backstage, where she bowed deeply per visitor. Attired in a large black layer with turning tails, her face covered with a huge white mask, she grinned carefully with her eyes at site visitors she identified.
Rei stated her motif was the ‘Spiritual Globe’ and the clothing did have a transcendent high quality. All supported by a soundtrack that consisted of a strangely chorister soundtrack consisting of ‘Anarkian Kuvajainen’ by Cucina Povera.
Not fairly a classic screen however an appealing skip in semi-sacred design
