"I think camp can express something deeper," noted Rei Kawakubo, "and give birth to progress."

• By Maura Brannigan
  Mar 3, 2018

The Costume Institute curator and avant-garde designer were "always at odds," Bolton claimed.

• By Whitney Bauck
  May 4, 2017

Plus, Diplo signs with NEXT Models.

• By Fashionista
  May 2, 2017

That's one easy way to get in on a theme.

• By Stephanie Saltzman
  May 1, 2017

Take a look inside the Costume Institute's landmark exhibit of the year before it opens to the public on Thursday.

• By Whitney Bauck
  May 1, 2017

"There's a sense of power injected into these clothes."

• By Tyler McCall
  May 1, 2017

It's no wonder the Metropolitan Museum of Art chose her.

• By Long Nguyen
  Mar 4, 2017

The 2017 Met Gala will celebrate the Comme des Garçons designer and will be co-chaired by Katy Perry and Pharrell Williams.

• By Maura Brannigan
  Oct 21, 2016

The visionary designer used exaggerated pieces to comment on how clothing is related to the human condition — from birth to death.

• By Long Nguyen
  Oct 2, 2016

Plus, Barbie reaches influencer status on Instagram.

• By Karina Hoshikawa
  Aug 31, 2016

In a long, weird essay for "The Observer" titled "Elle on Earth," a writer slams the women's magazine for "ruining" his Rei Kawakubo interview.

• By Maura Brannigan
  Mar 30, 2016

Trust us, it was hard to just choose 15.

• By Lauren Indvik
  Oct 9, 2015

While other designers in Paris focus on "likes," Rei Kawakubo continues to move the conversation about fashion and the design process forward.

• By Long Nguyen
  Oct 4, 2015

It's got it all.

• By Lauren Sherman
  Mar 13, 2015

Fashion's use as dialogue may be waning, but in the hands of designer Rei Kawakubo, it still has enormous power.

• By Long Nguyen
  Mar 8, 2015

Dover Street Market can be a launching pad for promising young designers. Here's who the retailer has scooped up for spring 2015.

• By Dhani Mau
  Jan 29, 2015

‘The infinity of tailoring’ was how Rei Kawakubo summed up her stellar, ambitious, and at times emotional fall 2013 collection for Comme des Garçons. The classic men's suit, the kind you'd find on Saville Row, was the foundation and from that basic building block came endless variations:

• By Long Nguyen
  Mar 3, 2013

Murray Hill: home to bro bars, trendy Thai restaurants, residential high rises containing young upwardly mobile professionals, and...Comme des Garcons?

• By Dhani Mau
  Dec 7, 2012

The Obama family's holiday weekend was full of fun (and cute fashion moments) for the ladies of the White House. {HuffPo} Want more Grace Coddington? Here she is talking about her new memoirs with Sarah Mowers. {Vogue UK} Here are ten up-and-coming designers to keep an eye on. {Refinery29} Anne Hathaway's extreme makeover for Les Miserablès didn't stop at her drastic weight loss; she says her haircut made her "look like [her] gay brother." {US Weekly}

• By Zanele Mji
  Nov 26, 2012

Comme des Garçons' Rei Kawakubo has created two scarf collections for the heritage brand, WWD is reporting. Though, whether Hermes' signature scarf will even look like a scarf once Kawakubo is done with it remains to be seen.

• By Dhani Mau
  Nov 26, 2012

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?

• By Long Nguyen
  Sep 30, 2012

Our menswear contributor extraordinaire, Long Nguyen, co-founder and style director of Flaunt magazine, has just wrapped up the menswear shows in Pa

• By Long Nguyen
  Jul 2, 2012

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):

• By Leah Chernikoff
  Jun 1, 2012

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.

• By Leah Chernikoff
  May 31, 2012