Iris Apfel Covers Dazed & Confused in Comme des Garçons, Makes Our Day
Can you think of anything better than Iris Apfel wearing (and somehow totally pulling off) Rei Kawakubo’s 2D Comme des Garçons collection on Dazed & Confused? Neither can we.
Wednesday October 17th, 2012
Sunday September 30th, 2012
Comme des Garçons Crushes It for Spring 2013
Crush was the single word that the house offered by means of an explanation.
There are no ‘nice pants’ or jackets or coats from this spring collection from Comme des Garçons but there are ideas to think about as one left the show. The central question of the show, I think, is: What exactly is the function of real fashion design in an age where there are so many clothes and so much information?
The 3 Most Buzzed About Shows from Day 5 of Paris Fashion Week
Pop quiz: Design in Paris is A) conceptual B) kinda weird C) joyous D) all of the above. On a day that zipped from Space Age sportswear at Junya to crushed can crowns and Comme, Report Card can tell critics were thinking really deeply about meanings. So extra credit goes to Jean Paul Gaultier for interrogating the dichotomy between a runway show and a concert–and reminding us all that fashion is also FUN!
Here’s what the critics were buzzing about.
Tuesday September 25th, 2012
Is Lady Gaga’s Comme des Garcons Ensemble a High Fashion F*** You To All Her Fat Haters?
In light of her recent, well-documented weight-gain controversy (can we just pause a moment to acknowledge the absurdity of that phrase?), Lady Gaga did what any respectable lady would do: She fought back with fashion.
Monday July 2nd, 2012
New Menswear Reviews: Louis Vuitton, Givenchy, Commes des Garcons
Our menswear contributor extraordinaire, Long Nguyen, co-founder and style director of Flaunt magazine, has just wrapped up the menswear shows in Paris. Check out his review of Kim Jones’ nautical-inspired collection (think surf not sailing) for Louis Vuitton; Riccardo Tisci’s usual but nonetheless thrilling collection mixing themes of sex, the Gothic, and Catholicism; and Rei Read more →
Friday June 22nd, 2012
Watch: Seth Meyers Does His Best Anna Wintour Impression, Admits He Wore Two Pairs of Boxers at the CFDAs
The CFDA Awards may have come and gone, but we still haven’t tired of hearing all the details on Seth Meyer’s amazing lacy Marc Jacobs’s ensemble. Really, will we ever? The Saturday Night Live comedian was on Conan last night and gamely offered up a few more gems about how the awards ceremony went down–and Read more →
Tuesday June 12th, 2012
The Top 20 Designer Collaborations: A Timeline
When H&M announced its latest designer collaboration with Maison Martin Margiela, we’ll admit we were a little surprised. Margiela is so avant-garde, so cult-y, and with little name recognition (OK, more than a little thanks to Kanye) we’d have figured them the last brand to do a collaboration with a mass retailer. But then again, H&M got Karl Lagerfeld to do a line for it in 2004, and then, somehow, the retailer convinced the most reclusive and enigmatic of designers, Rei Kawakubo, to do a Comme des Garcons collaboration in 2008. So maybe it’s not so surprising that Maison Martin Margiela is doing a mass collab–maybe it’s even obvious. It seems like every major designer has done a lower-priced collaboration with any number of mass retailers recently.
Wednesday June 6th, 2012
Fashionista’s Guide to Looking Chic in the Zombie Apocalypse
People, it’s time to kiss humanity goodbye. Folks are snacking on peoples’ faces, grilling their unfaithful lovers’ lips, and chomping on their roommates’ hearts. The Zombie Apocalypse is upon us, and our undead friends are hungry for limbs, organs, and of course, braaaains. But it’s not all bad–just because you might soon forgo chicken cutlets Read more →
Tuesday June 5th, 2012
Would You Rather…? Men in Lacy Dresses and White Boxers Edition: Marc Jacobs v. Seth Meyers
Last month, we were all heartbroken to learn that the lacy Comme des Garçons man-dress Marc Jacobs donned to the Met Ball had already sold out. Devastated would be an understatement. The thought of never seeing this heavenly creation gracing another body was almost enough to make us quit fashion forever. But just as we Read more →
Monday June 4th, 2012
And the CFDA Award Winners Are…
The fashion Oscars CFDA awards have wrapped: The Olsens took home the big prize for womenswear for the Row (they very adorably thanked each other); Seth Meyers wore Marc Jacobs’ Met ball outfit (and dared to make a Galliano joke); Garance Dore had folks tearing up when she accepted her award by telling the audience to “take your fun very seriously…[and] maybe one day you will start a revolution”; and John Waters proved the perfect person to pick up awards for both Comme des Garçons‘ Rei Kawakubo (“I wear Comme des Garcons to be fashionable in private…We know how great her clothes look but others just think we’re poor”) and Johnny Depp (“He has fashion balls…he was a pirate Pepe Le Pew way before I met him”). And the industry recognized its finest talents this year.
Without further ado, the 2012 CFDA award winners:
Friday June 1st, 2012
Rei Kawakubo on Her Design Process: ‘I Do Not Feel Happy When a Collection is Understood Too Well’
In advance of Comme des Garcons‘ Rei Kawakubo receiving the CFDA’s International Award this Monday (she’ll accept the award in absentia), Cathy Horyn’s written a great, justifiably hagiographic profile about the reclusive and enigmatic designer in today’s New York Times. “No living designer with the exception of Azzedine Alaïa is held in higher esteem by her peers, and none has enriched our spirit in so many original and confounding ways,” she writes. That’s high praise from Cathy Horyn. Also, true.
Kawakubo has a cult following–for evidence see this charming Style.com piece about Comme devotees. And remember when Tavi Gevinson famously rapped about her?
Horyn really gets to the core of why Kawakubo has garnered this cult following and why she is so compelling. “If Karl Lagerfeld is the leading talk artist of fashion, Ms. Kawakubo is the Mona Lisa,” she writes. “She makes no effort to reveal her meanings, though at times she explains her methods.” She asked her about her design method and reprinted her lengthy emailed answer in full because, “[i]t says everything, and it could not be said better.” Here it is (and for everyone who thought her last collection was about flat fashion in the Internet age, you thought wrong):
Thursday May 31st, 2012
Boo! Johnny Depp Will Not Accept his CFDA Style Icon Award in Person
We figured it was a long shot but we were really hoping that Johnny Depp would actually show up at Monday’s CFDA Awards in some fabulous fedora-plus-tiny scarf-plus pinstriped suit-plus arm party get up to accept his style icon award. Alas, it is not to be.
Johnny Depp will pick up his award in absentia as he is currently on location in the Navajo Nation filming The Lone Ranger, WWD is reporting. Comme des Garçons‘ Rei Kawakubo, who is set to receive the International Award, will also be a no show; she’s busy prepping her June 29 men’s show in Paris.
