Rei Kawakubo / Comme des Garcons for H&M Designer Collection

[harrietcamilla]

I'm so excited for this !

 

[miss6o]

OMG! This is the best news ever!!! I just wonder how she can tranfer the avant garde style to H&M's racks.. but we'll wait and see!

 

[whizkit]

nqth - that actually sounds wonderful, as opposed to a rack of printed tees and stripe shirts

 

[kiddokiddo]

I'm trying to look at it in a positive light because I respect Rei Kawakubo so much and I'm just hoping to see the certain element of suprises...I won't judge until seeing images but I keep thinking about what's next to come...Martin Margiela for H&M? Alber Elbaz for H&M? Nicholas Ghesquiere for H&M, every friggin' designer for H&M?

 

[kahlilg]

I'm trying to look at it in a positive light because I respect Rei Kawakubo so much and I'm just hoping to see the certain element of suprises...I won't judge until seeing images but I keep thinking about what's next to come...Martin Margiela for H&M? Alber Elbaz for H&M? Nicholas Ghesquiere for H&M, every friggin' designer for H&M?

i honestly don't have a problem if every designer you mentioned did a line for h&m. in fact, i encourage it. it would be nice to judge pieces that i can actually own.

 

[liashoes]

^^I couldn't agree more.

 

[mikka000]

I'm trying to look at it in a positive light because I respect Rei Kawakubo so much and I'm just hoping to see the certain element of suprises...I won't judge until seeing images but I keep thinking about what's next to come...Martin Margiela for H&M? Alber Elbaz for H&M? Nicholas Ghesquiere for H&M, every friggin' designer for H&M?

Well Martin Margiela is teaming up with Loreal for a line of fragrances. And now the announcement that CdG is doing a line for H&M. Personally I'm excited to see how these designers in these more mainstream realms perfrorm, what they deliver and how they work with the constraints of doing more mass-market made in China stuff. As has been revealed before, how complex can you make the designs? Rei will have to rely on a different set of contstraints and rules. And sounds like she digs the idea!
Though I don't think it's that different from what they do already. PLAY for example is pretty commercial, however I like some of the stuff that comes out. Not to mention the wallets and the CdG SHIRT x Fred Perry collab. Working with H&M is just an extension of what we're already familiar with from CdG. PLAY's heart and eyes icon will be as identifiable as the Lacoste alligator. Let's make it so!

 

[manolocraver]

Another sellout for H&M ...

 

[Alejandro]

im worried.

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from frillr.com

what is that? is this a preview of the collection?

 

[Scott]

no,that's just a shot from that collection she did with the oversized top-stitches and ballerina tutu's. and the jewellery done by the wonderful judy blame. spring 05,yes?

 

[softgrey]

um..
i don't know...
that collection had tutus but it also had those leather stitched frankenstein jackets with the tutus....
it didn't have that blazer...
it's kind of weird...
but i agree...it's probably just a pic they found to throw with the little article...

if there was no pic in WWD then there are no pics to be had as of yet...
but the jewelry is judy blame for sure..i agree...
maybe judy blame will be involved with this via rei...?
that could be interesting actually....

 

[Pastry]

this collaboration is still freaking me out a little. Rei is up to something. Her cdg empire doesn't needs this, neither does she. I have a feeling she has her own, very specific, reasons to do this. a bizarre exploration of high street culture no doubt.

 

[MulletProof]

^I know. I still don't quite believe it for some reason.
one thing that annoys me for sure though, is the amount of people that all of a sudden will call themselves long-time followers of Rei's work (when they never really cared or were just repulsed by her work).. it's probably silly of me to get annoyed by that but I just can't stand it.. they lined up for cavalli, will line up for rei and would even line up for ms pulitzer if she'd get an invitation too.. hype just gives me migraine..

 

[Scott]

i'm sure you're right,mullet. i can almost imagine all the poseurs and label whores amuck,queuing,proclaiming their love and how quirky and smart they are because they now own comme. it's a given. but for me that won't deter.....

softie,wouldn't that be brilliant?! judy and comme together again. i've been wanting one of his pieces for ages since that collection....since he debuted his accessories.

maybe that shot is just a styled shot with some other pieces from some of the other comme collections? the suit actually looks like CdG Homme to me.

 

[nqth]

Scott, that shoot was published in NYT with an article abou Judy Blame actually

 

[Lena]

remember how we've been joking about the Comme@topshop/h&m possiblilty some months ago?

I have a feeling she has her own, very specific, reasons to do this. a bizarre exploration of high street culture no doubt.

that's very possible but still, it is so beyond the point

the designer/global-fashion-supermarket collaborations seem to be falling flat lately and anyway, taking away their prefume lines and guerrila stores, it's a fact that the cdg empire is not what it used to be.

to me cdg@h&m sounds like another self-destructive cdg joke

i'm so not interested in 'made in china' cdg T-shirts,
it flatly exposes the whole cdg hype.

 

[miss6o]

^I know. I still don't quite believe it for some reason.
one thing that annoys me for sure though, is the amount of people that all of a sudden will call themselves long-time followers of Rei's work (when they never really cared or were just repulsed by her work).. it's probably silly of me to get annoyed by that but I just can't stand it.. they lined up for cavalli, will line up for rei and would even line up for ms pulitzer if she'd get an invitation too.. hype just gives me migraine..

I'm annoyed by and fear the same thing as you. Like for example, average people here in Finland do not even know about Rei and CDG. I bet when the stuff comes out all of the sudden they go to wikipedia, read about it and are suddenly the biggest fans.. Or hopefully, they will not care for it at all, and more pieces will be left for moi.

 

[Scott]

nqth,which explains the abundance of those pieces...i see.

i dunno,lena,i still feel the women's mainline has been stronger than it ever has these last few years.

the aesthetics she's been perusing have been a bit more accessible.....which could be that element that would lead her to these more commercial endeavours and ultimately something like this. not that the mainline has been commercial but just has that air of something familiar and relatable whereas during the 80's and 90's and the first couple years this decade,was perhaps a bit overly conceptual.

nice to see you again,btw,deer

 

[Pastry]

^I know. I still don't quite believe it for some reason.
one thing that annoys me for sure though, is the amount of people that all of a sudden will call themselves long-time followers of Rei's work (when they never really cared or were just repulsed by her work).. it's probably silly of me to get annoyed by that but I just can't stand it.. they lined up for cavalli, will line up for rei and would even line up for ms pulitzer if she'd get an invitation too.. hype just gives me migraine..

oh, Mullet..I know.But we better start making peace with this now..Because, at this point, you know it's going to be exactly that. There are far too many so-called 'educated" consumers of fashion. oye..

 

[*Sunrise_Serena*]

It will be very interesting to see the outcome of this. I really doubt that their style fits to H&M, but as I wasn't too thrilled about Cavalli's collection, it can only get better.