New Comme des Garçons contemporary label, Black, is already selling out in Tokyo. ..
In honor of their sixth year together, Murakami and Louis Vuitton have released an anime short.
Marc Jacobs has been looking at real estate in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
Current/Elliot is launching a range of deadstock-inspired styles using Japanese denim.
Ms Kawakubo, 66, is one of the great fashion forces from the last decades of the 20th century to now. Integral to her success is that she is too original to be pigeonholed — although others may see her as a symbol of feminism, judging her by the chic severity of an unvarnished face under a straight fringe, complex but plain clothes and flat shoes.
”"Positive Energy: Comme at 40", The International Herald Tribune
To keep up with handbag demands, Hermès is now breeding crocodiles in Australia. ..
Esteban Cortazar is suing Emanuel Ungaro and the house is expected to settle.
A documentary is touring the festival circuit on the harsh reality of the modeling industry.
Comme des Garçons is celebrating forty years and planning a few new pop-up stores to celebrate.
In 2004 Lord & Taylor dropped Liz Claiborne but, thanks to Isaac, they're relaunching the line "in a big way". ..
Oscar de la Renta reiterated his frustration with Michelle Obama's fashion choices, after complaining to the press last week.
Australian Harper's Bazaar is making waves with an underwater fashion spread featuring a voluptuous model.
Comme des Garcons is collaborating with Vogue Nippon to open a pop-up store in Tokyo arranged in magazine format.
Paris 03/07/09. Photos by Chris Moore/Catwalking/Getty Images.
Paris Fashion Week Comme des Garçons Spring 2009 Photos by Chris Moore
We are going to go out on a limb and say that the trim pixie and the cropped bob are out for Spring 2009 if the Paris runways have any influence, a pack of designers had us singing "gimme head with hair, long beautiful hair, shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen HAIR!" Whether it was the elaborate alien coifs at Dior, the anonymous glamazons at Martin Margiela, the petty Marie Antoinettes at Comme des Garçons, the puffy mussed coifs at Tsumori Chisato, or the piles of crimped puffs at Sonia Rykiel, designers just couldn't get enough hair!
We are beginning to think that Rei Kawakubo may be too much of a literalist for our tastes or at very least a little too ham handed with the metaphors as her Spring 2009 collection entitled A Black Tomorrow had just a little too much "let them eat cake" imagery for us to stomach. Billowing Marie Antoinette hairdos do nothing for us even when the obvious quip about entitlement, excess and fallen empires reaches out to an editor begging us to make a joke. But the tragedy of it all is that tomorrow has come faster than we thought and like the impertinent princess we are ill equipped to cope with its consequences.
Puffy first estate creations (in contrast to her decidedly Tiers Etat H&M disaster) in somber black do not appeal to us and while we appreciate the intense workmanship involved in the collection we can only hang our heads at the ultimate thesis. Perhaps we are reading too much into the in your face message, maybe we should focus instead on the cut outs, the fringes, the capelets, delicious jackets or even the soccer ball tops but with the harsh reality of tomorrow already upon us we are finding it more than difficult.
In April we mentioned we were unsure just how Rei Kawakubo's highly conceptual work would translate into clothing for the hoi polloi with her much anticipated collaboration with H&M and now thanks to the power and speed of the blogosphere the full collection is making the rounds faster than a bad cold. And just as we predicted, despite many a young hipster craving a Comme des Garçons look, Kawakubo's designs in cheap polyester are a giant joke on the third estate. Deconstructed clothing that is going to deconstruct even faster thanks to cheap materials is no one's idea of fashion. Just wait to get your hand's on the Comme de Garcon's Spring 2009 collection that showed today OK?
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