COMME DES GARCONS

Comme des Garçons brought Japanese avant-garde to the West in 1981 with its groundbreaking Paris début, introducing deconstruction, asymmetry, and monochromatic color schemes as a new paradigm for conceptual fashion. Head designer Rei Kawakubo’s creations have since maintained their reputation for radical 'anti-fashion' aesthetics and frequent forays into gender fluidity.  The brand’s penchant for challenging and redefining the boundaries of beauty and fashionability leads them to explore the “in-between-ness” of dualisms like high/low and presence/absence in an astonishing range of original pieces. The label Kawakubo built remains an innovative, intellectually potent force in the fashion world that has never left the cutting edge.