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Comme des Garçons Clothing

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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 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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Designer: Comme des Garçons
Comme des Garcons Black & White Check Flat Ruffle Dress 2013
By Comme des Garçons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Comme des Garcons black and white check flat day dress with black ruffle trim. Collection 2013.
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21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Comme des Garçons Clothing

Comme des Garcons Vintage White Cotton Jacket, 1998
By Comme des Garçons
Located in Sparks, NV
Vintage Comme des Garcons white cotton double breasted jacket from the 1998 collection. Hook closure at the collar. Unlined. The jacket fits like a modern size small. The bust measur...
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1990s Japanese Comme des Garçons Clothing

1990's Comme des Garçons Woven Wide Leg Embroidered Pants
By Comme des Garçons
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
1990's Comme des Garçons heather grey woven lightweight wide leg pants with an elastic waist and all-over black floral embroidery. Fully lined. New with tags.
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20th Century Japanese Comme des Garçons Clothing

Comme des Garcons Men's Olive Green with Embroidered Patch Pocket Shirt
By Comme des Garçons
Located in New York, NY
Comme des Garcons men's olive-green shirt is accented with embroidered patch pocket in front. 100% cotton, size medium/France. The shoulder ...
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1980s French Comme des Garçons Clothing

Comme des Garcon White with Black Multi-Sized Dots Men's Shirt
By Comme des Garçons
Located in New York, NY
Comme des Garcon's men's white with black dots of multi sizes is made of 100% cotton. Sized large. The shirt is accented with a single breast pocket in front. The shoulders measu...
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1990s Japanese Comme des Garçons Clothing

Comme des Garçons ivory muslin embroidered draped dress, ss 1984
By Comme des Garçons
Located in London, GB
Comme des Garçons; Ivory muslin dress. Grey loosely stitched embroidery, large asymmetric drape on skirt, one armhole. Can be worn in various ways. Sprin...
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1980s Japanese Comme des Garçons Clothing

COMME des GARCONS Homme Plus Checkered Suit, Spring Summer 2002, size M.
By Comme des Garçons, Comme des Garçons Homme Plus
Located in Tương Mai Ward, Hoang Mai District
Vintage COMME des GARCONS HOMME PLUS checkered suit comes in black, pink textured wool with a notch lapel, single breasted three b...
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Early 2000s Japanese Comme des Garçons Clothing

Comme Des Garcons Ruffle Neck Wool T-Shirt
By Comme des Garçons
Located in Oakland, CA
Comme des Garcons embellished t-shirt. Pale creamy almost yellow color. Ruffle detail at neckline that wraps around the back with velvet ribbon and bows. Tagged a size medium. ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Comme des Garçons Clothing

Vintage Junya Watanabe Pictorial Print Double Bag Parachute Dress 2003
By Junya Watanabe, Comme des Garçons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Resurrection Vintage is excited to offer a vintage Junya Watanabe linen pictorial print parachute double bag dress. The parachute dress features a pink, ...
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Early 2000s Japanese Comme des Garçons Clothing

Vintage Junya Watanabe White Parachute Backpack Dress 2003
By Comme des Garçons, Junya Watanabe Comme des Garçons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Resurrection Vintage is excited to offer an important vintage, Junya Watanabe, for Comme des Garcons white cotton parachute backpack dress. The dress features white parachute straps ...
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Early 2000s Japanese Comme des Garçons Clothing

Comme Des Garçons clothing for sale on 1stDibs.

Find an extraordinary range of authentic Comme des Garçons clothing available on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing our collection of unique vintage and designer fashion to elevate your daily look or to introduce new colors to the dazzling formal wear in your wardrobe, this designer’s body of work includes elements of red, purple, blue and other tones. Customers who are interested in this designer might also find the work of Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, and Rei Kawakubo appealing. On 1stDibs, find haute couture, vintage and designer Comme des Garçons clothing from top boutiques around the world. Comme des Garçons clothing prices can differ depending upon time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $40 and tops out at $38,500, while the average work can sell for $947.

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