Comme Des Garcons bias cut satin jersey dress, ss 1986

Name: Comme Des Garcons bias cut satin jersey dress, ss 1986
Brand: Comme des Garçons
Price: 1919.84 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

This Comme Des Garcons satin jersey dress from the Fall-Winter 1986 Bias Cutting collection is a great example of the brand’s innovative approach to fashion design. Renowned for their avant-garde aesthetic, Comme Des Garcons has reinterpreted the bias-cutting technique, a technique first pioneered by Madeleine Vionnet in the 1920s, and later revived by John Galliano in the 1990s. This dress features a fluid silhouette, achieved through the precise cutting and drapery of the fabric on the bias, which allows it to naturally cling to the body and create a flattering fit. Designed with a minimalist sensibility, the dress features a modern jersey neck and sleeveless design. The satin jersey fabric adds to the dress’s comfort and slinkiness, making it a wearable yet sophisticated piece.

Designer:

Comme des Garçons

Brand:

Comme des Garçons

Dimensions:

Marked Size: S (NA)

Style:

1920's Madeleine Vionet (In the Style Of)

Place of Origin:

Japan

Period:

1980-1989

Condition:

Wear consistent with age and use.

Seller Location:

Melbourne, AU

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU3625219593912

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Comme des Garçons is one of the world’s most innovative and trailblazing fashion brands, helmed by its inimitable founder, Japanese designer Rei Kawakubo (b. 1942), who has a penchant for breaking fashion and cultural norms. The only living designer apart from Yves Saint Laurent to have a retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, Kawakubo has permanently changed fashion with designs that challenge traditional ideas of beauty with a creative and transgressive exuberance.

After studying art and literature at Keio University in Tokyo, Kawakubo worked as a freelance stylist before establishing her own label in 1973, opening her first store in Tokyo in 1975. Kawakubo has since been instrumental in pioneering many concepts now familiar in contemporary fashion. One of her most iconic moves was her introduction of androgynous styles (Comme des Garçons means “like the boys” in French) with asymmetrical, twisted silhouettes that envelope the body. While she told the New York Times that the “basics of clothing lie in men’s fashion,” Kawakubo believes in the concept of humanness in clothes, such as titling her spring 1995 show “Transcending Gender.” In the 1970s, when color-blocking was the norm, Kawakubo stuck to her monochromatic color palette dominated by shades of black with uncompromising dedication, although with evocative and powerful use of red and white.

Comme des Garçons is also known for an often shocking take on fashion. Deconstructed tailoring, violently slashed fabric and sculptural shapes are some themes that run through the brand’s collections, but Kawakubo never explains the meaning of her conceptual pieces, which fall somewhere between art and fashion. Even though the brand has more commercial offshoots like PLAY, known by the iconic heart motif with eyes, the premier men’s line Homme Plus and the multilabel Dover Street Market that opened in 2004, the essence of Comme des Garçons remains Kawakubo’s otherworldly and undefinable creations, which are impossible to ignore.

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