Comme des Garçons F/W 2022.23 Tokyo

[vogue28]

VOGUE.COM

 

[Fulton St Critique]

Seeing her clothes in this 2-D format is about as useful as seeing a Rothko on Google images- the effectivness of the art is completely lost in this digital translation.

Besides, I still find the BLACK label to be the best and most intruiging work to come from CDG in the past five or so years.

 

[YohjiAddict]

I like it minus the zebra print, the exploration of shapes with the skirts is keeping with her work the past few seasons but the jackets are much more wearable. I particularly like the bolero jacket made out of distressed brocade and the felt one that resembles a puzzle piece. The opening look is perfect for an onstage adaptation of Oliver Twist.

I did prefer the menswear because of its laid-back approach plus the clever use of color. This could definitely use more of that.

 

[Avonlea]

It's decent but styling isn't helping. I would throw out the zebra print, make them walk barefoot and change hairstyle for something simple and slick.

 

[runner]

I like this pic

wwdjapan

 

[runner]

for years CdG has been about periphery rather than center, picaresque humour rather than social compliance, and momo rather than kiki.
for rei kawakubo, beauty is to be found in disarray rather than harmony.
with little sense of celestial direction as seen in gothic architecture, symmetrical, longing for perfection, comme moves towards something like dogu's excavated usually broken.

some of this collection are bursting a bit like a ripped sofa.
but here shape comes to life less by maintaining itself, than by letting itself disintegrate.









travelbook
wikipedia
sozanan
kagu-syuriya

 

[Cocteau Stone]

Rei loves a questionable wig and I wonder why, because they can get very distracting.

I do enjoy this though now that I've revisited it after a week from the terrible fashion month that was. I prefer it when what is produced has a stronger semblance to typical clothing not just for the sake of wearability, but for understanding the exaggerations made. It's nice being able to see the construction and deconstruction lines for once, and as intricate as those mounds of fabrics and mille-feuille silhouettes can be, they can often say more nothing than something in my eyes.

The zebra print is odd, and so is that splash of technicolor in the one look. If the zebra was a super dark grey-scale and a textural brocade/jacquard it would work a little better. The starkness of the white is a little jarring when seen alongside the other tonal shades.

 

[runner]

there must be some secret without which beauty itself would be merely beautiful, that is, merely pleasing, brilliant.
" the beautiful becomes the beautiful only beyond itself." - nancy (rip)
self-laceration ? CdG has been trying to be something other than just beautiful works. maybe this is why it has been associated with art sometimes.

you can see something because it is there. or there can be something because you see it.
if beauty (or the sublime) has to do with the latter, it is a fragile thing. but that is what she has staked her life on.
she has at once her splendor and misery. it can easily fall into ostentation. she can be a lunatic who is ridiculed, but also a prophet who reveals.

 

[softgrey]

for years CdG has been about periphery rather than center, picaresque humour rather than social compliance, and momo rather than kiki.
for rei kawakubo, beauty is to be found in disarray rather than harmony.
with little sense of celestial direction as seen in gothic architecture, symmetrical, longing for perfection, comme moves towards something like dogu's excavated usually broken.

some of this collection are bursting a bit like a ripped sofa.
but here shape comes to life less by maintaining itself, than by letting itself disintegrate.

View attachment 1200756

View attachment 1200757

View attachment 1200758

View attachment 1200760

travelbook
wikipedia
sozanan
kagu-syuriya

bursting sofa image is inspiring and revelatory...
thank you~!

 

[runner]

selfservicemagazine