{"id":89923,"date":"2016-12-01T16:59:15","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T21:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/?p=89923"},"modified":"2021-12-15T01:01:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T06:01:26","slug":"comme-des-garcons-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/comme-des-garcons-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"Fashionable Quiz: Comme des Gar\u00e7ons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"quizz-container\" data-width=\"100%\" data-height=\"auto\" data-quiz=\"304054\"><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/dcc4iyjchzom0.cloudfront.net\/widget\/loader.js\"><\/script>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/rei-kawakubo\/\">Rei Kawakubo<\/a>, of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/comme-des-garcons\/\">Comme des Gar\u00e7ons<\/a>, is an enigma. If she gives interviews at all, her responses can be oblique. \u201cI can\u2019t be naked for everybody,\u201d she says of her impermeable protective barrier. She prefers her work to speak for itself, and speak it does, in its own language: a pastiche of implausible ideas that together become somehow inevitable.<!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI never intended to start a revolution,\u201d she says. \u201cI only came to Paris with the intention of showing what I thought was strong and beautiful. It just so happened that my notion was different from everybody else\u2019s.\u201d Indeed it was. See how much you know about this legendary anti-fashionista.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/comme-des-garcons\/\">Shop&nbsp;Comme des Gar\u00e7ons on 1stdibs<\/a><\/h2>\n<hr>\n<p><em>Questions by Lisa Santandrea. Santandrea is a New York City<\/em><em>\u2013based writer who teaches fashion history at Parsons School of Design. <\/em><em>Background image:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/fashion\/clothing\/jackets\/rare-comme-des-garcons-black-industrial-glamor-avant-garde-ruffle-blazer-jacket\/id-v_1671743\/\">Comme des Garc\u0327ons ruffled blazer, 21st century<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rei Kawakubo, of Comme des Gar\u00e7ons, is an enigma. If she gives interviews at all, her responses can be oblique. \u201cI can\u2019t be naked for everybody,\u201d she says of her impermeable protective barrier. 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