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Comme Des Garcons Hands 2007

Comme des Garçons by Tao, hand crochet and knit wool dress, 2007
Comme des Garçons by Tao, hand crochet and knit wool dress, 2007

Comme des Garçons by Tao, hand crochet and knit wool dress, 2007

By Comme des Garçons, TAO Comme Des Garçons

Located in CAPELLE AAN DEN IJSSEL, ZH

This Comme des Garçons by Tao dress is a sculptural fusion of hand crochet and fine knit wool, designed in an organically draped silhouette that captures the artisanal spirit of the ...

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Mixed Media Collage Cut Painting Cecil Touchon Black White Assemblage Texas Art

Mixed Media Collage Cut Painting Cecil Touchon Black White Assemblage Texas Art

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Located in Surfside, FL

Cecil Touchon (1956-, Austin, Texas) FS3809ct16 Abstract Composition Framed ink and collage on heavy Aquarelle Arches paper Hand inscribed lower center (these were typically signed ...

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Mixed Media Collage Cut Painting Cecil Touchon Black White Assemblage Texas Art
Mixed Media Collage Cut Painting Cecil Touchon Black White Assemblage Texas Art

Mixed Media Collage Cut Painting Cecil Touchon Black White Assemblage Texas Art

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Cecil Touchon (1956-, Austin, Texas) FS3809ct16 Abstract Composition Framed ink and collage on heavy aquarelle Arches paper Hand inscribed lower center (these were typically signed v...

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Comme des Garcons Iconic Padded Hands 2007 Collection Jacket
Comme des Garcons Iconic Padded Hands 2007 Collection Jacket

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Located in Antwerpen, Vlaams Gewest

Outrageous cool pink polyester jacket from the infamous 2007 Comme des Garcons padded 'hands' Collection - Japan Size S

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Comme des Garçons white lycra skirt suit with padded hand motifs, fw 2007

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By Comme des Garçons

Located in London, GB

Comme des Garçons museum quality white lycra surrealist skirt suit with padded hand motifs.

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Comme des Garçons black lycra jacket and pants with padded hand motifs, fw 2007
Comme des Garçons black lycra jacket and pants with padded hand motifs, fw 2007

Comme des Garçons black lycra jacket and pants with padded hand motifs, fw 2007

By Comme des Garçons

Located in London, GB

▪ Comme des Garçons black lycra jacket and pants suit ▪ Padded hand motifs ▪ Fitted jacket with short front and long back ▪ Three-quarter length pants with dropped crotch ▪ Size Sma...

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Comme Des Garcons Iconic Padded hand pants 2007
Comme Des Garcons Iconic Padded hand pants 2007

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Located in Beverly Hills, CA

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COMME DES GARCONS Iconic 2007 Collection Padded Hands Black Skirt

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Located in Antwerpen, Vlaams Gewest

Black Skirt COMME DES GARCONS padded hands. Fabric has stretch Measurements taken flat: Waist 13inch/33cm(x2) - Hip 16,5inch/42cm(x2) - Total length 25inch/64cm

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ICONIC Comme des Garcons FW 2007 Black Skirt with 3D Hands Applique
ICONIC Comme des Garcons FW 2007 Black Skirt with 3D Hands Applique

ICONIC Comme des Garcons FW 2007 Black Skirt with 3D Hands Applique

By Comme des Garçons

Located in New York, NY

ICONIC Comme des Garcons FW 2007 Black Skirt with Padded "Hands" Applique; Missing fabric label; Fabric has give, most likely lycra with an elastic waist; Designer's label intact; Fi...

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By Comme des Garçons

Located in Water Mill, NY

Fabulous grey jersey harem, sarouel, pants from the 2007 Comme des Garcons CDG collection with padded hands, gloves on either side of the hips.

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Fall 2007 Comme des Garcons
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Located in New York, NY

Rei Kawakubo for Comme des Garcons version of a virtual boyfriend: a skirt with 3-D hands holding the hips. Calf length skirt stretch with softly padded gloves grasping the hips. ...

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2007 Comme des Garcons Iconic Padded Hands Ensemble
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2007 Comme des Garcons Iconic Padded Hands Ensemble

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Located in Los Angeles, CA

Iconic Comme des Garcons ensemble dates to 2007 with padded hands on the skirt.

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Iconic 2007 Comme des Garçons Pullover with Hand Detail

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By Rei Kawakubo, Comme des Garçons

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Amazing sweater from Comme des Garçons circa 2007 is made of a white open weave knit.

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Located in Melbourne, Victoria

Iconic COMME des GARÇONS white knitted tailcoat with padded hand attachments from the 2007 Autumn/Winter collection.

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Comme des Garçons for sale on 1stDibs

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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