Comme des Garcons Collection Pictures from the 1990's

[SweetHeart07]

Oh, I just love that skirt from SS91! Very nice... I love the color and the mix match of color. it works very well!

 

[Baizilla]

stunning.

btw..there was a picture somewhere in TFS i saw recently, its Rei K sitting front row next to Suzy Menkes. But i can't find the pic. Anybody can help?

In the FW06 thread.

 

[*sayan]

Thank you

 

[sea of stitches]

does anyone know why (most?) people don't consider (mention that) comme des garcons' lump/bump ss97 collection (is) a rip off of georgina godley's 1986 collection? i know loads of designers rip off other designers/vintage stuff, but they are not usually championed for said design's innovativeness. i love cdg for many other reasons, but that collection is always mentioned in summaries for rei. and i have always found it a bit perplexing. i wish i had pics to show you guys but i can't find them anymore.

((apologies if this is in the wrong thread and if there is some obvious explanation that i haven't found))

 

[nqth]

I also have read about it. I am wondering what the similarities are, the design, context, purpuses.. Because one can't just say that everybody who does punk is ripping off Westwood, everybody who makes wide shoulder is copying Montanna..., making jeans is ripping off Levis itp.

 

[sea of stitches]

This underwear is padded to give the wearer an exaggerated feminine form.

Georgina Godley created it for her 'Lump & Bump' Collection in 1986 as a challenge to the fashion world's preoccupation with the slender female body. It was worn on the catwalk beneath a long Lycra dress. As preparatory work for the Collection she remodelled the bodies of a series of Barbie dolls.

from the brighton museum


there are more detailed explanations somewhere else but i promised to get off the computer now.

 

[sea of stitches]

I also have read about it. I am wondering what the similarities are, the design, context, purpuses.. Because one can't just say that everybody who does punk is ripping off Westwood, everybody who makes wide shoulder is copying Montanna..., making jeans is ripping off Levis itp.

i see what you are saying nqth (and thank you for replying ). i feel like their purposes while not exactly the same are quite similar. i guess i'll just take it as rei wanted to explore the idea further. i just feel like rei is given more credit. maybe because she has done more than just one innovative collection? i don't really know...i'm not familiar with godley so much.

 

[nqth]

You are welcome:-) Maybe RK was pushing it into the hardest forms, ignoring the anatomy of the body (or making it looks "ugly"). I don't know Godley's works, tho.

I think this collection is referred to when forms are considered. It was her most "outrageous" show indeed...

 

[La bordélique]

I don't have much information on this campaign ad except that it was taken by Peter Lindbergh.

(scanned by me)

 

[La bordélique]

More pictures of earlier Comme...

(scanned by me)

 

[MulletProof]

^that's awesome. which magazine are they taken from?

 

[La bordélique]

They're from a book called Fashion Now and an old shopping catalogue.

 

[GuerrillaBoy]

nice!! thanks La Bordelique....

 

[La bordélique]

One more

Le musée de la mode
Knits. Autumn/Winter. 1984/1985.
Photographed by Peter Lindbergh

(scanned by me)

 

[Baizilla]

Oh, thanks bordelique

Love the shapes..

 

[La bordélique]

^ You're welcome! I love how it's all asymmetrical... it's very grungy.

 

[*sayan]

Merci pour les photos

 

[birdofparadise]

Ask and ye shall receive...

does anyone know why (most?) people don't consider (mention that) comme des garcons' lump/bump ss97 collection (is) a rip off of georgina godley's 1986 collection? i know loads of designers rip off other designers/vintage stuff, but they are not usually championed for said design's innovativeness. i love cdg for many other reasons, but that collection is always mentioned in summaries for rei. and i have always found it a bit perplexing. i wish i had pics to show you guys but i can't find them anymore.

((apologies if this is in the wrong thread and if there is some obvious explanation that i haven't found))

Photos of Georgina Godley's Shaped Underwear and Shaped Dress from 1986, snapped by Cindy Palmano (who was also responsible for all of those lovely very early Tori Amos album art/videos), scanned from Richard Martin's Fashion and Surrealism (go pick it up!!!)

 

[La bordélique]

Vivienne Westwood had also made a few dresses with the lump/bump earlier in her career. I don't think she was trying to rip off Rei or Georgina, I mean, she's been around since the late seventies.

 

[birdofparadise]

Actually, the development was sorta kinda simultaneous. Westwood began experimenting full blast with mini crini's and bustle skirts with 'Harris Tweed' in Fall '87 and 'Pagan I' in Spring '88. She seemed in her attempts to harken back to European historical costumes rather than trying to totally de-emphasize the body, turning form into function (Georgina Godley's work has been connected to surrealism). It wouldn't be a stretch to think Rei had come across Godwin's work at some point or maybe even the Jean Arp sculptures of the 30s that are an inspiring starting point.