"All about Comme Des Garcons" Mook by Pen+

[mistress_f]

New from Pen+ is a special mook celebrating the history of COMME des GARCONS. Simply titled “all about COMME des GARCONS,” the book-like magazine highlights the founding of the company by Rei Kawakubo in 1981 and explores its growth up to present. Featuring looks at the establishment of Kawakubo’s Dover Street Market, the brand’s work with Junya Watanabe, various diffusion lines and countless collaborations over the years with everyone from Supreme and Vans to Star Wars, Tricker’s, Porter and more.

(hypebeast.com)

When the title says "all about Comme des Garçons", it actually covers almost everthing that the brand has done from 1982-2012. It has even an exclusive interview (in both Japanese and English transcript) with the head designer/co-owner Rei Kawakubo who usually shy away from interviews and the media world.
Also expect to see all the sub brands under CdG and collaborations such as Junya Watanabe being archieved in this mook. If you claim to be a fan of Comme des Garçons, this is the mook to get.

(streething.com/)

I'm not sure this is the right forum to post this in (maybe the mods can move this to its right forum), but as a Rei fan I thought this might be interesting to share.
I'm actually really looking forward to buy this, but I can't find it anywhere except from japanese amazon and i'm not even sure they ship over here. Any idea, anyone?

 

[BBBBB]

amazon.co.jp ships internationally. But check out the reviews: mostly one stars... Doesn`t seem like a quality product to me. If there is a Japanese bookstore near you, you could try there.

 

[softgrey]

thanks for the info mistress...

i'd be interested to see it...
and i am amused by the word 'mook'...
magazine + book = mook
...

that's just funny...

 

[runner]

checked a bit. one star because basically this is an expensive re-edition of the issue that was out this spring.
so what they want to say is that if you have the 'original' issue already, you don't need to get the deluxe (in price only, they say) version all the way.

pen at amazon (not pen+)



amazon
penonline

 

[softgrey]

ahhh...
thanks for checking and for translating the reviews runner......

this should probably be merged with the Comme des Garcons Universe thread...