Junya Watanabe x Komine black paneled protector vest with hooks and reflector panels — spring 2025

Description Similar items Comme des Garçons black jumper with long oversized knit chain — fall 2014 €219.00 Add to cart Junya Watanabe black puffed-shoulder blazer with exposed white sleeve lining — spring 2016 €289.00 Add to cart Comme des Garçons blue pinstripe cutaway blazer with double lapel and shoulder cap — spring 2010 €239.00 Add to cart Comme des Garçons black inside out deconstructed bubble skirt with waxed print — spring 2001 €229.00 Add to cart Rick Owens TRUCKER black leather bomber jacket with pleated back — fall 2003 €599.00 Add to cart Comme des Garçons black sheer coat over short sleeved beige lining with navy back panel — spring 2019 €239.00 Add to cart A.F. Vandevorst black draped fencing jacket with chalk print — fall 2010 €349.00 Add to cart Rick Owens STAG black, brown and silver panelled leather mouton jacket with denim sleeves — fall 2008 €869.00 Add to cart About Rei Kawakubo Rei Kawakubo is a Japanese fashion designer, however, she didn’t study fashion but fine arts and literature at Keio University in Tokyo.   After graduation, she worked as a stylist before launching her label Comme des Garçons. Going against the 1980s super feminine look, she sent an all black, deconstructed collection on the runway, dubbed “anti-fashion” and “Hiroshima Chic” by easily shocked and insensitive journalists.   During the 1980s, her garments were primarily in black and dark grey or white. By the time of her Paris debut in 1981, Kawakubo was so famous that her fans were dubbed ‘the crows’ in the Japanese press.   Comme des Garçons kept on growing, evolving into a Comme de Garçons ‘world’ with about 20 distinct lines. This also gave Rei Kawakubo the possibility to give employees their own line, like Junya Watanabe, (the now discontinued) Tao Kurihara en the recently added Noir by Kei Ninomiya.   Kawakubo specializes in anti-fashion; producing deconstructed garments, which are draped around the body in an asymmetric shape, making them look awkward and uncomfortable. The hems are often unfinished and frayed. Rei Kawakubo is reclusive and doesn’t give many interviews, she let’s her creations speak for themselves. She is know as a fashion icon and influence for designers like Martin Margiela, Ann Demeulemeester and Helmut Lang which have all name checked Kawakubo as an inspiration.