Dress

Design House Comme des Garçons Japanese
 Designer Rei Kawakubo Japanese

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Since founding Comme des Garçons in 1969, the designer Rei Kawakubo has consistently upended conventional notions of beauty and disrupted accepted characteristics of the fashionable body. This dress of cotton-polyester felt from Kawakubo’s autumn/winter 2012–13 Two Dimensions collection was designed to blur the boundaries between body and garment. It incorporates the two-dimensionality of the kimono into a trompe l’oeil silhouette of a Western dress. Its bold, primary colors and flat, outsize shape challenge the rules of age-appropriate dressing by engaging with the concept of kawaii (cuteness), a key aspect of Japanese popular culture defined by playfulness and performativity.



On view from October 22, 2022–February 20, 2023

Dress, Comme des Garçons (Japanese, founded 1969), polyester, cotton, Japanese

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Dress, Comme des Garçons (Japanese, founded 1969), polyester, cotton, Japanese
Dress, Comme des Garçons (Japanese, founded 1969), polyester, cotton, Japanese
Dress, Comme des Garçons (Japanese, founded 1969), polyester, cotton, Japanese
Dress, Comme des Garçons (Japanese, founded 1969), polyester, cotton, Japanese
Dress, Comme des Garçons (Japanese, founded 1969), polyester, cotton, Japanese
Dress, Comme des Garçons (Japanese, founded 1969), polyester, cotton, Japanese

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