Comme des Garcons S/S 2006 Paris
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Johnny said:And this is, "constitutionally", our (the Scots') national anthem......
A travesty for sure ... and rather dated ... Marshal Wade indeed
You would think it would have been struck out by now. You guys need a professional apologizer like the late Pope or Bill Clinton to take care of all these old matters 
Baron, thanks for the lyrics ... fascist definitely occurred to me but, not being up on my Sex Pistols ... well ...
She's no fascist or fashionist as far as I can tell ... not terribly apt label for someone whose whole family stayed in London as the fascist bombs rained down ...Are those the writer's ideas?
So "cutting without pattern". Brilliant:-) The skirts are drapped from a piece almost without cutting, so they are "swagged and ruched at the sides". So simple, and "natural" isn't it. Why the writer asked why?
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oh my god, i just saw the entire show at firstview.com...this is incredible, one of the best shows i've seen in a very long time...
Has anyone else noticed that the three greatest designers who have ever lived are women who share a similarity in their names? To wit:
The great Rei Kawakubo, fashion designer (among other things).
The late great Ray Eames, furniture designer (among other things).
The great Mary-Ann Ray, architect (among other things).
If I ever have a daughter I will name her Rei. If I have a second daugher I will name her Ray. If I have a son I will name him Reimond. If I have a second son I will name him Raymond.
The great Rei Kawakubo, fashion designer (among other things).
The late great Ray Eames, furniture designer (among other things).
The great Mary-Ann Ray, architect (among other things).
If I ever have a daughter I will name her Rei. If I have a second daugher I will name her Ray. If I have a son I will name him Reimond. If I have a second son I will name him Raymond.
The Baron said:We might be reading too much into it, but Ms. Sarah seems to be reading far too little.
Puzzling, perhaps, but "puzzlingly literal"? "Japanese tourist souvenirs of Britishness"?
You're being kind Baron. It was downright dumb.
Just some random last thoughts about this lovely collection….. and a little note to those mocking the significance 
Rei always introduced her ideas gradually and well ahead–Example: in the early 90s during austere/deconstruction she gradually re-introduced color: first in muddy tertiairy tints to end in an explosion of color in the mid-90s -> still well ahead of the much heralded ‘return to color’ in mainstream fashion…in fact, it was considered shocking & bad taste at the time.
Her current play on graphics and the new silhouette she is introducing with this collection are v. interesting and I’m excited to see where it all goes…As she states herself, the message with CdG is much more of the aesthetic and not the political kind.
“Cutting without pattern”
as you noted Ngth
Rei always introduced her ideas gradually and well ahead–Example: in the early 90s during austere/deconstruction she gradually re-introduced color: first in muddy tertiairy tints to end in an explosion of color in the mid-90s -> still well ahead of the much heralded ‘return to color’ in mainstream fashion…in fact, it was considered shocking & bad taste at the time.
Her current play on graphics and the new silhouette she is introducing with this collection are v. interesting and I’m excited to see where it all goes…As she states herself, the message with CdG is much more of the aesthetic and not the political kind.
“Cutting without pattern”
as you noted Ngthlove it haruki. 
when rei responded by saying it wasn't about britishness, i think she wanted to stress it wasn't solely about britian's empire (it would have been instantly simplified if she had admitted that), but it was used as a symbol or a trigger for corrupt systems that people put a lot of faith in. it's not a cynical viewpoint, on the contrary, it's a very empowered and a realistic perspective. in a way this could be called her Diposable Collection, because of it's crowns, the symbols of the british empire... the union jack and the structured jackets buried by these yielding 'natural' (as ngth put it )tartan wraps. she remains consistent because the exploration of the fleeting nature of things is the centerpiece of this collection.
when rei responded by saying it wasn't about britishness, i think she wanted to stress it wasn't solely about britian's empire (it would have been instantly simplified if she had admitted that), but it was used as a symbol or a trigger for corrupt systems that people put a lot of faith in. it's not a cynical viewpoint, on the contrary, it's a very empowered and a realistic perspective. in a way this could be called her Diposable Collection, because of it's crowns, the symbols of the british empire... the union jack and the structured jackets buried by these yielding 'natural' (as ngth put it )tartan wraps. she remains consistent because the exploration of the fleeting nature of things is the centerpiece of this collection.
travolta said:love it haruki.
when rei responded by saying it wasn't about britishness, i think she wanted to stress it wasn't solely about britian's empire (it would have been instantly simplified if she had admitted that), but it was used as a symbol or a trigger for corrupt systems that people put a lot of faith in. it's not a cynical viewpoint, on the contrary, it's a very empowered and a realistic perspective. in a way this could be called her Diposable Collection, because of it's crowns, the symbols of the british empire... the union jack and the structured jackets buried by these yielding 'natural' (as ngth put it )tartan wraps. she remains consistent because the exploration of the fleeting nature of things is the centerpiece of this collection.
isn't it cool how a few pictures of clothes allow you to make lofty, contrived, completely arbitrary statements?!
faust said:isn't it cool how a few pictures of clothes allow you to make lofty, contrived, completely arbitrary statements?!
It's no more or less arbitrary than making sweeping buying/styling/publishing decisions that will affect thousands of customers (and the buying habits of millions who look to style icons among those thousands for their cues on what to wear) on the basis of seeing a heaping double handful of clothes on the runway for a few brief minutes.
i honestly don't see how one cannot look at this be thinking she didn't intend us to see it in an analytical, metaphorical way... the staging, the 'avant-gardiness' is milking our capacity to be the over-intellectualized creatures that we are. it's like saying that you would go to see a play and take the entire thing at face value. what's the point?
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