Title: Rei Kawakubo :
Authors: Bolton, Andrew,; Kawakubo, Rei,; Cope, Nicholas Alan,; Baron, Fabien,; Iwashiro, Yuki,; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),
Date: 2017
Publisher: The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Physical description: 244 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 37 cm
Language: English
LC classification: T
Abstract: A revelatory look at the influential and enigmatic designer behind Comme des Garçons. The great pantheon of fashion designers produces only a handful of creators who are masters of their metier. Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons is one of them. Widely recognized among her contemporaries as the most important and influential designer of the past forty years, she has, since her Paris debut in 1981, defined and transformed the aesthetics of our time. This lavishly illustrated publication examines Kawakubo's fascination with interstitiality, or the space between boundaries. Existing within and between dualities--whether self/other, object/subject, art/fashion--Kawakubo's work challenges the rigid divisions that have come to define received notions of identity and fashionability, inviting us to rethink fashion as a site of constant creation, re-creation and, ultimately, hybridity. Featuring brilliant new photography, and thought-provoking texts by Andrew Bolton, this book expresses the conceptual and challenging aesthetic of this visionary designer. An insightful interview and illustrated chronology of Kawakubo's career provide additional context. Exhibition: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA (04.05-04.09.2017).
Contents: Introduction: art of the in-between -- Kawakubo/Bolton: a conversation -- Fashion, antifashion -- Design, not design -- Model, multiple -- Then, now -- High, low -- Self, other -- Object, subject -- Clothes, not clothes.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from May 4-September 4, 2017. "New photography by Nicholas Alan Cope, Inez and Vinoodh, Katerina Jebb, Kazumi Kurigami, Ari Marcopoulos, Craig McDean, Brigitte Niedermair, Paolo Roversi, and Collier Schorr"--Insert. Some volumes include supplementary poster (68 x 98 cm) Rare Book copy: In original dust jacket and slipcase; supplementary poster laid in.
Subject headings (LCSH): Comme des Garçons (Firm)--Exhibitions.; Exhibition catalogs.; Fashion design--Japan--Exhibitions.; Fashion designers--Japan--Exhibitions.; Fashion--Japan--Exhibitions.; Interviews.; Kawakubo, Rei, 1942---Exhibitions.; Kawakubo, Rei, 1942---Interviews.