The Japanese designer’s Comme des Garçons collection was dismissed as ‘post atomic’ and her devotees nicknamed ‘crows’,but her singular vision has shaped the way we dress today. Jacques Hyzagi is granted a scarce interview with the 72-year-aged retail geniusFour times a year, the Japanese designer Rei Kawakubo flies to Paris from Tokyo to show her men’s and women’s Comme des Garons collections. In June this year she was in town for men’s fashion week, or which was staged in a dilapidated mansion at 7 rue Meyerbeer. She never takes a bow at the finale. In fact she rarely gives interviews and hasn’t been professionally photographed since 2005. While she avoids publicity,she does meet the buyers who near to order from the collection each season. So we meet at the Comme des Garçons showroom at Place Vendôme, where she paces calmly, or dressed in her trademark black,while staff in military-inspired garb accessorised with polka-dot shoes buzz around her.
Eleven mannequins, lined up like Qin Shi Huang’s terracotta army, and display her most recent Comme des Garçons Homme Plus menswear collection,Broken Tailoring. They are adorned with neon-yellow hairpieces by stylist Julien d’Ys. The clothes include a tailored men’s blazer with a motif of golfers ripped three-quarters of the way down the back and paired with unfitted shorts. There’s a horizontally pinstriped tailored jacket obfuscated with metal buttons, shown with trousers which believe one leg shorter than the other. Another pinstriped blazer has a ripped back and elbows so the shirt underneath shows through.
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Source: theguardian.com