Comme des Garcons Short Sleeve Sculpted Pleats Denim Dress

Name: Comme des Garcons Short Sleeve Sculpted Pleats Denim Dress
Brand: Comme des Garçons
Price: 1900 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

Denim is masterfully rethought in this avant-garde Tricot Comme des Garçons day dress . The utilitarian textile in a rich indigo blue is gathered, pleated and ruffled to take on a lightweight appearance in the pretty knee-length silhouette. The bodice alone is genius in its intricacy with its puffed short sleeves trimmed in sweet pleats, its asymmetrical center front finished with a ruffle of raw fringe and its abundance of gathers that meet at the seams to create a traditional fitted-waist silhouette minus any of the normal dress pattern conventions. Gold stitching throughout nods to the fabric’s history in jeans, but also accentuates the deconstruction at play here—and the brilliance of the Japanese designer behind it. Pulled on or off over the head, this is an easy piece despite how tricky it seems and an amazing find for a woman with an appreciation of clothes that push the boundaries. Size: S Measurements Bust: up to 36 inches Waist: up to 29 inches Hips: up to 37 inches Length: 44 inches This Tricot Comme des Garçons dress is in excellent condition. It is tailored from dark indigo denim into a knee-length silhouette with short puffed sleeves. The dress emulates a fitted-waist shape using a deconstructed pattern and pleating, gathering and ruffling construction techniques. In addition to gold thread throughout, finishes include raw fringe at the center front and center back and white cotton canvas trim at the V-neckline. The dress is unlined and pulls on or off over the head. It has been professionally dry-cleaned and pressed. High-quality vintage pieces like this are yours to live in and love while increasing in value every year. It’s never too soon to start collecting them, as an investment in your wardrobe—and in yourself.

Designer:

Comme des Garçons

Brand:

Comme des Garçons

Dimensions:

Length: 44 in (111.76 cm)Marked Size: small (JP)Bust: 36 in (91.44 cm)Waist: 29 in (73.66 cm)Hip: 37 in (93.98 cm)

Place of Origin:

Japan

Period:

21st Century

Condition:

Excellent.

Seller Location:

Boca Raton, FL

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU73016232652

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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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