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 a reputation for their radical 'anti-fashion' aesthetic and frequent forays into gender fluidity--their penchant for challenging and redefining the boundaries of beauty and fashionability. Exploring the “in-between-ness” of dualisms like high/low and presence/absence in an astonishing range of original pieces, the label she built remains an innovative, intellectually potent force in the fashion world--one that has never left the cutting edge.