Author

Publication

2021 - Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Language

English

Word Count

60,000 words, Guess

Page Count

240 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCTT505

Description

"The Japanese fashion designer Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garc̈ons is undoubtedly one of the world's major fashion designers. In 2017 she was the second living designer to ever be given a retrospective at the renowned Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Her work exerts an extraordinary influence over succeeding generations of designers and is a major point of reference for all those wishing to explore the place of fashion in contemporary culture. The 14 essays in this collection, written by eminent fashion theorists from around the world, ask what is the relationship of Kawakubo's work to art, philosophy and architecture, and ultimately illustrate how Kawakubo's creative output allows us to understand the very notion of fashion itself"--

Subjects

Topics

HandicraftFashion designFashion and artFashion designersComme des Garçons (Firm)History of fashion,Fashion design & theory,Fashion & society,Fashion & beauty industries

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