Dress

Comme des Garçons|Rei Kawakubo

spring/summer 2007 · synthetic, metal · Costume Institute

Since founding Comme des Garçons ("like some boys") in 1969, the Tokyo-based designer Rei Kawakubo has consistently defined and redefined the aesthetics of our time. Season after season, collection after collection, she upends conventional notions of beauty and disrupts accepted characteristics of the fashionable body. This dress from Kawakubo's spring/summer 2007 "Cubisme" collection highlights the designer's exploration of hybrid identities. The combination of a deconstructed, Western-tailored vest with the red circle and white background of the Japanese national flag blurs the boundaries of conventional definitions of culture.

Artist

Comme des Garçons|Rei Kawakubo

Date

spring/summer 2007

Medium

synthetic, metal

Culture

Japanese

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Purchase, Friends of The Costume Institute Gifts, 2014