Rei Kawakubo

For and Against Fashion

Rex Butler

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Jahr: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781350118249
• Auflage: 1
• Thema: Diseño
• Thema: Diseño de moda

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Cover
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Dedication Page
• Contents
• List of plates
• List of illustrations
• Notes on contributors
• Introduction: For and against fashion
• 1 Couture clash
• 2 The empire designs back
• 3 Rei Kawakubo as a retail format pioneer
• 4 Rei Kawakubo: Agent provocateur in a hyper-glamourized world
• 5 Rei Kawakubo and the luxury of freedom
• 6 Rei Kawakubo: Defiance personified
• 7 Exploring the theoretical meaning of Rei Kawakubo: Two waves of Japanese fashion in the West and Georg Simmel’s fashion dualism
• 8 The subversively cute side of Comme des Garçons: Rei Kawakubo and romantic transgression
• 9 Breaking the idea of clothes: Rei Kawakubo’s fashion manifesto
• 10 The complexity of Kawakubo: A radical form of consciousness
• 11 Between clothing and flesh: Kawakubo at the Met
• 12 Kawakubo’s solipsism: The art of the in-between at the Met
• 13 Rei Kawakubo: Fashion degree zero
• Index
• Imprint