Comme Des Garçons Fall Black Twisted Concept Dress 2002

Name: Comme Des Garçons Fall Black Twisted Concept Dress 2002
Brand: Comme des Garçons
Rating: 4.7 (15 reviews)

About the Item

Resurrection Vintage is excited to offer a vintage Comme des Garçons Fall 2002 black twisted concept dress, an iconic example of Rei Kawakubo’s sculptural and avant-garde approach to silhouette and construction. Crafted in a structured black fabrication with a fluid matte finish, this curated luxury vintage archive piece features dramatic asymmetrical draping, exaggerated twisted volume, architectural folding throughout the body, and a sculptural high neckline that transforms the garment into a wearable form study. The cocooned silhouette and distorted proportions reflect the conceptual experimentation and anti-fashion tailoring that defined Comme des Garçons during the early 2000s. A rare runway-caliber vintage archive piece that embodies Japanese avant-garde design, sculptural tailoring, and the intellectual approach to fashion synonymous with Comme des Garçons. Comme Des Garçons Size: Small Fabric: Feels Like Synthetic With Neoprene-Like Finish 2002 Collection Excellent Vintage Condition Wear Consistent with Age and Use Authenticity Guaranteed

Designer:
Comme des Garçons
Brand:
Comme des Garçons
Dimensions:
Marked Size: small (JP)
Style:
vintage Comme des Garçons dress (In the Style Of)
Period:
2000-2009
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use. We consider this to be in excellent vintage condition with wear consistent with age and use.
Seller Location:
Los Angeles, CA
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU4529916742

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Comme des Garçons

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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