Rare Comme Des Garçons Peplum Jacket AD 1986
By Comme des Garçons
Located in New York, NY
Very Rare Comme Des Garçons structured peplum jacket . Excellent condition. Size S. Same as seen at CDG add Made in Japan. FINAL SALE
Rare Comme Des Garçons Peplum Jacket AD 1986
By Comme des Garçons
Located in New York, NY
Very Rare Comme Des Garçons structured peplum jacket . Excellent condition. Size S. Same as seen at CDG add Made in Japan. FINAL SALE
Comme des Garçons by Rei Kawakubo Skirt Suit A/W 1986
By Comme des Garçons, Rei Kawakubo Comme Des Garcons
Located in London, GB
- Autumn / Winter 1986 Comme des Garçons runway collection by Rei Kawakubo - Sold by Mae Vintage - Black avant garde skirt suit.
1986 Comme des Garcons black RUNWAY dress with box pleats
By Rei Kawakubo, Comme des Garçons
Located in San Fransisco, CA
This 1986 black wool runway dress by Comme des Garcons is constructed with vertical box pleats that structure the body of the garment and define its shape.
Comme des Garcons black nylon bias cut fishtail dress, ca. 1986
By Rei Kawabuko, Comme des Garçons
Located in London, London
Comme des Garcons; Black nylon dress cut on the bias with one shoulder strap and gathered georgette fishtail skirt Spring-Summer 1986
Comme des Garcons Woven Oversize Scarf AD1983 photographed by Peter Lindbergh
By Comme des Garçons, Rei Kawakubo
Located in Berlin, DE
The same scarf was used in book "Comme Des Garcons 1981-1986" photography by Peter Lindbergh.
Comme des Garcons black nylon bias cut fishtail dress, ss 1986
By Comme des Garçons
Located in London, GB
Comme des Garcons; Black nylon dress cut on the bias with one shoulder strap and gathered georgette fishtail skirt Spring-Summer 1986
COMME des GARCONS Size S Re-Edition Printemps-Ete 1986 Logo Coat
By Comme des Garçons
Located in San Francisco, CA
COMME des GARCONS GOOD DESIGN SHOP Re-Edition 1986 Staff Coat comes in a black solid and striped mixed fabrics, with a buttoned front, six buttons at closure, patch pockets, striped ...
Comme des Garcons Spring-Summer 1986 black bias cut evening dress
By Comme des Garçons, Rei Kawakubo
Located in London, GB
Comme des Garcons Spring-Summer 1986 black bias cut jersey evening dress with chiffon and creased nylon fishtail skirt
Comme Des Garcons "Stuff" Coat Uniform Automne Hiver 1985/1986
By Comme des Garçons
Located in New York, NY
This rare piece of fashion history belongs to a series made only for Comme des Garçons staff during CDG fashion show in 1985/1986.
1986 REI KAWAKUBO Comme des Garcons navy dress with box pleats
By Rei Kawakubo
Located in San Fransisco, CA
Very rare, navy-blue wool dress with box pleats and long waist tie designed by Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons dating to fall of 1996. No size indicated. Best fits a S or M. Width ...
Comme des Garcons Paint Knit Dress AD 1986
By Comme des Garçons, Rei Kawakubo
Located in Berlin, DE
Archival Comme des Garcons light beige knit dress from early and rare AD 1986 collection.
Comme des Garcons 1986 Dior Style Bubble Hem Dress
By Comme des Garçons
Located in Bath, GB
Comme des Garcons 1986 Collection Dior Style Bubble Hem Dress Labelled size S Excellent Condition
Comme des Garcons A/W 1986-87 Collection Jacket
By Comme des Garçons
Located in Bath, GB
Comme des Garcons 1986 Collection Peplum Jacket Labelled size M Excellent Condition
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 1969. Comme des Garçons — which is also known as CDG — officially launched in 1973, and Kawakubo opened her first store in Tokyo three years later. She has since been instrumental in pioneering many concepts now familiar in contemporary fashion.
One of Kawakubo's 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 (she titled 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.
Designer Junya Watanabe, who worked alongside Kawakubo for nearly a decade, operates an atelier based within the Tokyo headquarters of Comme des Garçons, and he established a line under Kawakubo's label in the early 1990s. Since then, even though the brand has launched additional lines and 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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