Comme des Garçons S/S 10 Paris

[Piewi]

It´s beautiful. The collection is very coherent,the way it evolves...the volume, fabrics, prints are just perfect. Love this

 

[LagerfeldBoy]

Those patchwork jackets are to die for! All those different fabrics and prints mixed together look so delish.

 

[Andymoon]

hideous.

 

[mikeijames]

i guess i'm the only one that's going to make reference to that iconic balenciaga collection from 2001, but it's definitely present here. and yes, i understand that stood as a reference to another, but alas. i love this collection because it's actually quite a practical offering from rei kawakubo. most of these tops and jackets would fit seamlessly into the wardrobes of the average fashion girl. i can imagine almost any of these over a pair of cropped pants and and manolos or pencil skirt and tribute pumps.

also, these clothes are such a modern mix that they're futuristic in their own way.

 

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[Inaya]

thank you so much MP

so amazing! just wow!

 

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PARIS, October 3, 2009

By Sarah Mower

Rei Kawakubo is held in such awe and esteem as fashion's leading conceptualist—and so well known as a woman of few words—that most people wouldn't dare imagine her having a sense of humor. Yet was there a sly dig at current fashion's fast-forward consumption of trends going on in the collage of fabrics in her Spring collection? The first look she sent out had a black leather shoulder brace over a nude netting T-shirt and a patchworked skirt of brocades and red glitter. As the composites of materials continued, it transpired that chopped-up shoulder parts of jackets were appearing displaced in strange places—as if Kawakubo was casting an ironic eye over the current obsession with shoulder pads, and literally trashing it. Backstage, she didn't have any comment or explanation for that. She just said, with what may have been a flicker of a smile, "I'm an adult delinquent, to the end."

Kawakubo deliberately works at an isolated distance from the mainstream. Just recently, though, she'd have needed to be a hermit or a saint not to react to the way the wider industry has been cannibalizing her ideas. Thanks to her last collection alone, both military-drab and the use of sheer, nude fabric are running rampant through the Spring shows, shortly to be followed by an instant mass-market response. Kawakubo returned to both points in this collection (via army tailoring and transparent beige trenchcoats) as if to flag the fact that actually, she was the one who started those trends.

It's never wise to second-guess a Kawakubo motivation, but her soundtrack serene music, suddenly shifting to a scrambled, fast-forward cacophony, then back again, and the slow-then-quickened step of her models seemed to mirror the idea of the pace of intellectual creativity versus the voracious speed and noise of consumer culture. Still, the mood of the show didn't position Kawakubo as a woman in a funk about the state of affairs in current fashion. And if she actually was taking a sidelong swipe at the mass market's shoulder-pad mania in this collection, and declaring it over? Well, that would not just be funny, but dead right, too.

 

[Squizree]

No one does deconstruction like CdG The trench coats are beautiful.

 

[sobigsobig]

50 years ago dream, past, future, future past.

 

[Dkammern]

beautiful! i'm in love with all the off white collage dresses. sleeveless, french sleeve... all of them

 

[ParadEyes]

thankyou for the detail shots, MulletProof

 

[Zazie]

Trust CdG not to hold back when she does collage - not just materials, colours, textures, prints, but also clothing parts, shapes, forms, etc. What's genius is making the disparate elements all work together in an off-kilter manner but never "off", the true meaning of "collage".