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Lot's of great stuff. There are many things I regret not getting when I had the chance.
I have a question. At the end of the firstview cdh homme + fall 2002 runway series there is a picture of a woman. She is smiling. It is certainly not the Rei Kawakubo.
Here is the link:
http://www.firstview.com/MENFall2002/COMME_DES_GARCONS/P065.html
Dare I ask if she perhaps the designer in charge of Homme + not Rei Kawakubo?
I have a question. At the end of the firstview cdh homme + fall 2002 runway series there is a picture of a woman. She is smiling. It is certainly not the Rei Kawakubo.
Here is the link:
http://www.firstview.com/MENFall2002/COMME_DES_GARCONS/P065.html
Dare I ask if she perhaps the designer in charge of Homme + not Rei Kawakubo?
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/\ That's exactly what I was wondering too, someone please help!
Also does anyone have pics of their 80's stuff???
Also does anyone have pics of their 80's stuff???
Arthur77 said:
I looked at CDG pieces I have from both fall and spring, and they both are marked AD, so it must be AD, after death, as opposed to BC, before christ. I guess so you won't confuse it with Comme des Garcon's really old BC seasons
I went the the CdG botique in NYC today and have to gush about a jacket I got... most everything from this season is either polyester or nylon, and mine is polyester. I wan't too excited about this season when it first came in but after a few visits came to love a few pieces. They do such amazing things with synthetics! You can tell it's synthetic, (only by touch, not looking at it) but it's a really amazing, luxurious and comfortable twill fabric. I have other synthetic pieces from them that are really great too (including a rayon one that feels just like cotton). I was prejudiced against synthetics before, but in Kawakubo's hands they become so appealing and wearable. And the tailoring and cut is just razor-sharp, rivals anything from Dior Homme! Single-button closure, narrow, upward-pointing lapels, very fitted. Here is a picture of it (from Style.com) but it looks a million times better in person, the space between the lapels is completely straight, not curved as in the picture, and the color is a rich, deep black not gray. And the texture of the fabric which you can't get a sense of from the pic is amazing. I love Rei Kawakubo!!!
I wish CdG would do more accessories like scarves and caps, their materials and color sensibility would be perfect for that, but they have so little available. I saw some Junya Watanabe sweaters there today that were just amazing and wanted to get one to cut it up and make a scarf out of it (much to the salespeople's horror)
I wish CdG would do more accessories like scarves and caps, their materials and color sensibility would be perfect for that, but they have so little available. I saw some Junya Watanabe sweaters there today that were just amazing and wanted to get one to cut it up and make a scarf out of it (much to the salespeople's horror)
Congrat, Brian:-)
Yes the synthetic fabric of HP is amazing. I only saw the SS collection - jkt with the fabric that Rei Kawakubo loves:-) It is light and soft, looks just like light wool.
I remember the Guerrilla had a lot of scarfs in winter. They were Shirt line, huge, wide and long:-) Some made from australian (or new zealand) kind of spec. wool, quite soft but v.v.pricey. I like the blk-yellow check (normal wool). One could wear it as sarong:-P
Yes the synthetic fabric of HP is amazing. I only saw the SS collection - jkt with the fabric that Rei Kawakubo loves:-) It is light and soft, looks just like light wool.
I remember the Guerrilla had a lot of scarfs in winter. They were Shirt line, huge, wide and long:-) Some made from australian (or new zealand) kind of spec. wool, quite soft but v.v.pricey. I like the blk-yellow check (normal wool). One could wear it as sarong:-P
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hi Nqth, I've seen you on Basenotes before! I have a polyester jacket from the Homme line - which I think is a line only available in Japan, tho they have it in the NYC botique and probably other CDGs, but not readily available outside Japan besides CDG botiques( correct me if I'm wrong), and that line always has some amazing pieces. The salespeople told me the Homme line was worked on by both Rei and Junya, and you can see elements of both in it. My jacket has a bold stripe fabric with green, blue and gray and is super comfortable. I don't have a digital camera so here is a scan of it!
they told me that they considered doing a guerilla store in NYC but it never happened. I guess since we already have a CDG store, another wouldn't really be necessary.
And at the store here they have some caps from the Shirt line that had screened words on them but weren't that great
Speaking of scarves, I just got a scarf by Veronique Branquinho that is so cool I made a new thread here about it!
they told me that they considered doing a guerilla store in NYC but it never happened. I guess since we already have a CDG store, another wouldn't really be necessary.
And at the store here they have some caps from the Shirt line that had screened words on them but weren't that great
Speaking of scarves, I just got a scarf by Veronique Branquinho that is so cool I made a new thread here about it!
I finally remembered where I read something about designers other than Rei Kawakubo at Comme des Garcons and looked it up rather than continued studying which is what I am supposed to be doing now. It was in ID March 2002 No. 218 in an article about 10 Corso Como Comme des Garcons.
Quoting Rei Kawakubo:
"So I will choose and edit the pieces I want for the shop from the Junya Watanabe collections or from the Homme collection designed by our own Keiichi Tanaka"
"Junya Watanabe and Tanaka (the Comme menswear designer) will also make things specially for the store under their own labels."
I assume she is refering to just the Homme line, not the Homme + line. Anyway, this still doesn't explain who the mystery woman at the end of the Fall 2002 runway is as Keiichi is a boys name.
Quoting Rei Kawakubo:
"So I will choose and edit the pieces I want for the shop from the Junya Watanabe collections or from the Homme collection designed by our own Keiichi Tanaka"
"Junya Watanabe and Tanaka (the Comme menswear designer) will also make things specially for the store under their own labels."
I assume she is refering to just the Homme line, not the Homme + line. Anyway, this still doesn't explain who the mystery woman at the end of the Fall 2002 runway is as Keiichi is a boys name.
