Vintage 1990’s Comme Des Garçons wool wrap style vest

Name: Vintage 1990’s Comme Des Garçons wool wrap style vest
Brand: Comme des Garçons
Price: 1000 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

COMME DES GARCONS mesh cropped jacket from the runway collection. COMME DES GARCONS Shawl Top in woollen floral lace. Beautiful alternating taupe and caramel abstract daisies create a modern top that can be worn in a myriad of ways. Fastens with removable maxi safety pin. Features padded underarm to create a dramatic A shape. Never worn and new with tags and spare fabric swatch. Marked medium but would fit most sizes. This unique jacket is a chance to own a piece of fashion history. Made in Japan. Comme des Garçons is a Japanese fashion label founded and headed by Rei Kawakubo. The label was started in Tokyo by Rei Kawakubo in 1969 and established as a company in 1973. The brand’s name was inspired by Françoise Hardy’s 1962 song “Tous les garçons et les filles”, particularly from the line Comme les garçons et les filles de mon âge. The brand became successful in Japan in the 1970s and a menswear line was added in 1978. In 1981 the company had a debut show in Paris. Kawakubo’s heavy use of black, as well as distressed fabrics and unfinished seams went on to define the label.

Designer:

Comme des Garçons

Brand:

Comme des Garçons

Dimensions:

Bust: 36 in (91.44 cm)Waist: 30 in (76.2 cm)

Style:

Deconstructed (In the Style Of)

Place of Origin:

Japan

Period:

1990-1999

Condition:

Wear consistent with age and use.

Seller Location:

COLLINGWOOD, AU

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU3411218959132

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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 1973, opening her first store in Tokyo in 1975. Kawakubo has since been instrumental in pioneering many concepts now familiar in contemporary fashion. One of her 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, such as titling 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. Even though the brand has 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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