Comme des Garcons

October 2, 2023
Published by VANESSA FRIEDMAN at October 2, 2023
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Balenciaga, Loewe, Hermès and Comme des Garçons Assess the Options

It’s time we expect more from our clothes. Assessing the options at Balenciaga, Loewe, Hermès and Comme des Garçons. Backstage after his autobiographical and quasi-retrospective Balenciaga […]
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May 26, 2023
Published by Vivian Morelli and Andrew Faulk at May 26, 2023
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A Japanese Pearl Farm Shows Nature’s Artistic Process

SHIMA, Japan — It was raining hard, with blustery winds roiling the sea — unusual conditions on the spring day when I visited the Mikimoto Tatoku […]
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January 19, 2020
Published by GUY TREBAY at January 19, 2020
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Fighting Back With Color

PARIS — “Fashion week is like the playoffs, like a championship,’’ the musician Quavo said as he made the rounds here this week. “There are some […]
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May 4, 2017
Published by ROBERTA SMITH at May 4, 2017
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Art Review: The Met’s Rei Kawakubo Show, Dressed for Defiance

In the 1980s in the New York art world and other cultural spheres, black was the new black, and the designer most responsible for this state […]
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May 2, 2017
Published by MATTHEW SCHNEIER at May 2, 2017
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Party Coverage: Scene City: At the Met Gala, Paying Homage to Rei Kawakubo

Party Coverage: Scene City By MATTHEW SCHNEIER She scurried up the Met Gala red carpet so quickly that if you blinked you probably missed her. She […]
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May 2, 2017
Published by VANESSA FRIEDMAN at May 2, 2017
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Fashion Review: Reviewing the Met Gala: The Good, the Avant-Garde, the Absurd

What does it mean, as the invitation requested, to dress “Avant-Garde”? This was the question Monday night at the Met Gala, the annual fund-raising event for […]
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April 30, 2017
Published by VANESSA FRIEDMAN at April 30, 2017
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On the Runway: Everything to Know About the Met Gala

Vanessa Friedman ON THE RUNWAY Officially, it’s the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute benefit, a black-tie extravaganza held the first Monday in May to raise […]
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April 26, 2017
Published by Photographs by ERIK MADIGAN HECK at April 26, 2017
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Feature: Rei Kawakubo, Interpreter of Dreams

Rei Kawakubo is a 74-year-old Japanese designer who has been making monochromatic, boiled, overstuffed, unraveling, surreal clothes since she began her label, Comme des Garçons, in […]
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March 5, 2017
Published by VANESSA FRIEDMAN at March 5, 2017
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Fashion Review: Redefining the Female Silhouette at Comme des Garçons

PARIS — Being only the second living designer to be selected for a solo show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute is the kind […]
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