Comme des Garçons
Designer: Rei Kawakubo

• “Was she smiling when she made this collection? Not to poke fun at her audience–‘Huh, they’ll buy anything, this fashion lot’–but actually smiling with pleasure? Because it looked like a whole lot of fun to make. It remains to be seen if it will be a whole lot of fun to wear.” {ELLEuk.com}
• “If Rei Kawakubo had shown for spring the flat-plane collection of last season, she would have seemed, as the fashion world puts it , “right on trend.” But the formidable designer for Comme des Garçons was far ahead of the curve–or, more correctly, ahead of the rigorous geometry that she had created previously.” {International Herald Tribune}
• “There was a romantic quality to the silhouettes, which featured hats made from crushed cans and other materials. But there was the obvious analogy to the amount of waste in a consumer culture. … As usual, Ms. Kawakubo gave a lot to contemplate and enjoy.” {On the Runway/The New York Times}
• “In this Paris fashion week’s Game of Thrones stand-off, perhaps this collection was a reminder of who is the reigning queen.” {Style.com}
• “A collection which seemed to be about the process of designing itself, haphazardly crushing all the scraps and revisions of the toile-stages of dressmaking and tailoring into soft-sculpture composites.” {Vogue.com}
• “The clothes seemed anxious and the fabric choices intense–it was deliberately not wearable at times, for this was a point being made about fast fashion and as the collection progressed was illustrated even further with looks taking on a piled-on quality. They were wrapped and layered within an inch of their life.” {Vogue.com UK}
• “The new stuff was still well within the classic Comme des Garçons range, wonderfully weird in a familiar bunched-up, blobby way.” {WWD}