Comme Des Garçons

Niemand · Nov 23, 2007

Can anyone help me with their email address...would love that..or does anyone know where I could come across their prefume line in Canada...Thanks.

Sorry, I'm a noob...don't know where to post something like this....where do you usually do this?

Thanks

Niemand · Nov 25, 2007

can anyone help me out...or at least direct to where I should be posting this to get some answers....any help would be much appreciated...cheers!

softgrey · Nov 25, 2007

in the shopping forum...
will move it now...

softgrey · Nov 25, 2007

i was there yesterday and i have the business card in my hand...
no email...
phone 212.604.9200
fax 212.414.8845

if you call- try asking for chris..
he is my fave...

Niemand · Nov 25, 2007

thanks for the bit of info..the thing was..I got their number by google search, but the thing is...I can't call cuz of the time difference..I can never catch them on time

So, I thought they might have a email address...

I bought this fragrances called Sequoia in their line....and was wondering if there was anyway where I could buy it and they can have it shipped to my address...cuz it's so exclusive..most of the shops here don't have it....i was wondering if they did this....

Multitudes · Nov 25, 2007

Niemand, is it this one you're looking for? ...

http://www.luckyscent.com/shop/detail.asp?itemid=21804&section=2

I know Dover Street Market also have it, but then the shipping is gonna be steep for you, else I don't know where you might get it ... except CdG store!

Niemand · Nov 25, 2007

Multitudes said: ↑

Niemand, is it this one you're looking for? ...

http://www.luckyscent.com/shop/detail.asp?itemid=21804&section=2

I know Dover Street Market also have it, but then the shipping is gonna be steep for you, else I don't know where you might get it ... except CdG store!
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LOL..thanks for the big help guys..really appreciate..I actually knew of LS..but I skipped out cuz shipping is like 50 bucks if I buy from them..that's why I was trying to find a shop within Canada to buy or possibly contacting the CDG store in NY for some help....

But thanks for the effort guys..really appreciate.

Multitudes · Nov 25, 2007

Aaaahhh! Sorry we couldn't be to more help here!
We need some canadians in here!

You might want to try here if no one on tFS can help you! ...

http://community.basenotes.net/forumdisplay.php?f=45

Niemand · Nov 25, 2007

Multitudes said: ↑

Aaaahhh! Sorry we couldn't be to more help here!
We need some canadians in here!

You might want to try here if no one on tFS can help you! ...

http://community.basenotes.net/forumdisplay.php?f=45
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LOL..it seems more you guys help me..the more I'm in a runt....but thanks for the help.

There's two stores that carry the CDG perfume line in Canada...ones in my city, but I just called them...they are reopening their store in a couple of months..else where...and the other just closed down in Toronto..so I can't call them...*sigh*....

I guess I'll just have to pay the over inflated shipping charges from LS.

gius · Aug 21, 2009

bump ‼

dropsnap, fashionsnap
orig posted by inaya

Jungla_Juana · Aug 21, 2009

here's a pic of my treasured Cdg coat... given to me by a lovely, dear friend

it has 3 sleeves!! the third isn't visible in the pics, I'll take some more as soon as it starts getting cooler. If anyone has any idea what collection this might be from I would appreciate the info very much

luckyme · Aug 21, 2009

jeepers, that is Stunning. how does Rei make off kilter so so good...

laika · Aug 21, 2009

gorgeous, JJ! you really have a beautiful collection of clothes.

the season should be on the fabric care label, but it looks like it might be from Autumn 04?

Jungla_Juana · Aug 21, 2009

thanks guys

laika, you're right! I looked at the fw04 show and even if the exact coat isn't present, I spied lots of the same details (hook and eye closures, materials, extra sleeves) thank you so much

catwalking.com

laika · Aug 21, 2009

you're welcome.

lucky you to have it, I really think that was the best comme show of the past 5 years (present collection excluded).

luckyme · Aug 21, 2009

and what a season it is...from w magazine.

laika · Aug 21, 2009

^stunning, totally stunning.

Something about it reminds me of old CDG images...

thanks for scanning, lucky!

luckyme · Sep 10, 2009

a bit snarky but from an outsider who was most likely forced to review this "strange" collection by Comme des Garçons, she seems to have a good sense of humor and constructively tries to comprehend the unconventional path concept.

its great that she noticed the mens skirts and adored them. would love to see more men in those wool kilts...

horse blankets and condom sheaths....whats not to love about Rei this season?

here goes...

Fashion Up There Where the Air Is Thin
By CINTRA WILSON
Published: September 9, 2009
WHILE performing at Madison Square Garden in 2006, Barbra Streisand dressed down a heckler in fragrant language. “The artist’s role is to disturb,” she said, after apologizing.

The designer Rei Kawakubo has successfully kept Comme des Garçons just as provocative and defiantly crazy-looking as it was when it first prosecuted shock and awe on the runway in the early 1980s.

For the 2009 spring collection, the runway models had Marie Antoinette-style wigs made of gauze bandages. The black vinyl garments looked like something a naked fugitive would assemble if he were trapped in a garage full of covered cars with nothing but an X-Acto knife. Hats were made of what looked like mangled black tetherballs.

For the fall collection, the models’ hair resembled dislodged brains; their faces were wrapped in filmy nylon printed with a smudgy pair of blood-red lips. Depending on how the lips were tied to the model’s face (never on the mouth), they alternately resembled a war wound, a fresh nose job or a massive cold sore.

If Marni is postsex, Comme des Garçons might be described as post-reason. It accepts no visual limits, and forces fashion considerably beyond its comfort zone with enormous style and black humor. Take, for example, Comme des Garçons’s first “anti-perfume”: Odeur 53, a blend of bizarre notes including oxygen, “flash of metal,” mineral carbon, nail polish, cellulose, burnt rubber and “flaming rock.”
I guarantee you that no fragrance designers at Coty are sitting around, dreamily licking D cell batteries and saying: “Hey! Let’s make a perfume that smells like an asteroid hitting a manicure parlor.” You want white lace and peach blossoms, indulge in a bottle of Jessica Simpson’s Fancy Love. Odeur 53 is not for those who need to be universally liked.

The boutique is virtually hidden in Chelsea’s art-gallery zone. From the outside, it appears to be an old brick garage called Heavenly Body Works, plastered in layers of peeling art posters. But within the bricks is a wormhole to another dimension: a stainless steel esophagus leading to a haystack-shape glass doorway ... and that’s where all visual logic pretty much stops.

A saleswoman was wearing a dress from the line I have called “the condom collection”: a rumpled secretary cardigan and leggings, under an exterior tube dress of clingy nude nylon ($1,730). I thought she looked as if she were wearing a curious inside-out temple garment, apart from her bright red moccasins with black toes painted on them.

A few of the men’s shoes could be worn south of the Mason-Dixon Line only if a guy was determined to get the pie beaten out of him. Dig it: men’s patent leather Mary Janes. Two girly buckles across the arch, and big shiny bows on the toes. To all tough guys who feel the need to carry assault rifles into national parks: I triple-dog dare you. You’re not man enough to wear these shoes. Only a man who fears absolutely nothing could wear them. Arnold Schwarzenegger, if he actually were the Terminator and saving California from aliens, would wear these shoes. These shoes tell you exactly what a moral coward you are for not being queer-positive enough to wear them. They are dainty like a chain saw.

All kidding aside, there was a men’s wear item that I strongly hope will enter the mainstream: business kilts, in gray flannel and pinstripes, with big black buckles ($865). These are gorgeous, sexy, elegant and goose-bumpingly cool. I believe it is the moral and civic duty of senior Goldman Sachs executives to legitimize this look for Wall Street. Throw us a bone, boys ... you owe us.

My new style hero Johanna (who always seems to pull off remarkable Alexander Wang-cum-“Star Trek” silhouettes) managed to slip away from her job at Elle to join me; she was particularly taken by a pair of army green, unisex adult footie pajamas ($250).

We admired a skirt made of cotton tablecloth gingham, bound in black nylon straps at the top, and bunched at the back. It’s the Japanese bondage-bustle that Shirley Jones would wear for the surrealistic square-dancing scene in the new musical, “Yokohama!”

“I want to try that!” I shrieked, pointing at one of the employees, who wore a large black quilted pyramid hanging on gold chains from her shoulders ($2,200).

The staff got nervous eyebrows.

“Michiko will help you,” the keeper of the pyramid said with detectable reluctance.
Michiko Higuchi retrieved the heavy garment from the back and escorted me behind an enormous curved wall to a black slab bench that looked like a miniature Vietnam Memorial.

Putting this dress on was like trying to put snow tires on a sleeping bag, from the inside.

“You have to go in there,” Ms. Higuchi said, bravely trying to guide me through a seemingly endless darkness to the elusive exit points. We went through four or five fully assisted, failed attempts to put the dress on the right way.

“You don’t have it,” she kept saying, with increasing despair. I finally burst into uncontrollable giggling and quit when I got my head and both arms successfully out and through.

It still wasn’t on right, but nobody climbs K2 without training, either.

Do the ends justify the means? Are Comme des Garçons creations wearable? Are they realistic? Are they cute? Comme des Garçons does not answer these questions. Your approval is not its raison d’être — and this is what makes Comme des Garçons so incredibly great.

America hasn’t quite grocked the idea that civilization is desirable; that culture is the cornerstone of civilization, and that a thriving culture supports unfettered — read: occasionally offensive — art.

Art can’t just press your pleasure buttons and sell itself to you. It can’t need to care whether you like it — that’s the space where new ideas are born. It can’t just “think outside the box.” For art to do its job, it has to fill the box with yak dung and get as far away from it as humanly possible.

Michelle Obama seems, at least theoretically, to support such free expression: Earlier this year she wore an asymmetrical turquoise cardigan by Ms. Kawakubo’s protégé Junya Watanabe to the Royal Opera House in London.

God bless you, Mrs. President.

COMMES DES GARCONS

520 West 22nd Street (near 10th Avenue); (212) 604-9200.

COMME DES DIEUX One of Japan’s great design gods continues to work in mysterious ways, pushing the envelope of style until it bursts inside-out into an origami blowfish. It is not for philistines, and sometimes, it isn’t even for people who really appreciate it. (Nude manty hose — my phrase, not theirs — $130.)

COMME DES MONSTRES A prebloodstained button-down shirt for your favorite American Psycho ($505). Black down coats in oversize shapes evoking manta rays and gravestones, for your Uncle Fester ($1,320). If you demand that your clothing break free of stupid laws laid down for ordinary mortals, this is your wardrobe.

[FONT=&quot]JE NE COMME PREND PAS Blazers sewn onto overcoats, and overcoats sewn onto horse blankets. Men’s leopard-print ballerina pumps, like the ubiquitous Tory Burch flat, only for Tarzan. We may not wear it all, but we must be grateful it exists.[/FONT]
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luckyme · Sep 10, 2009

Kirsten Luce for The New York Times

user500 · Sep 10, 2009

very funny - thanks for posting, luckyme!
again, very nice colour palette.

well, now i know i am something like a terminator, though i have always considered myself as a very fearful person.

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