The Japanese fashion designer Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons 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.
Rei Kawakubo
Rex Butler
This is a collection of essays by 15 fashion scholars on the celebrated Japanese fashion designer Rei Kawakubo.Rights sold
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Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Publication Date: 12-01-2023
Format: Hardback | 234 x 156mm | 256 pagesAbout the Editor
Rex Butler is Professor of Art History at the School of Art, Design and Architecture, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of the Reader's Guides to Deleuze and Guattari's 'What is Philosophy?' (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Borges' Short Stories (Bloomsbury, 2010), and, with David Denny, co-editor of Lars von Trier's Women (Bloomsbury, 2018).
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