Rei Kawakubo

Author : Andrew Bolton
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781588396204

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Rei Kawakubo Comme des Garçons by Andrew Bolton Pdf

Widely recognized as among the most important and influential designers of the past forty years, Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons has defined and transformed the visual language of our time. Since her Paris debut in 1981, she has blurred the divide between art and fashion and transformed customary notions of the body, beauty and identity. This lavishly illustrated publication weaves an illuminating narrative around Kawakubo's revolutionary experiments in interstitiality—the space between boundaries. Brilliant new photographs of more than 120 examples of Kawakubo's womenswear for Comme des Garçons, accompanied by Kawakubo's commentary on her designs and creative process, reveal her conceptual and challenging aesthetic as never before. A chronology of Kawakubo's career provides additional context, and an insightful conversation with the author offers a fascinating glimpse into the mind of this fashion visionary.

Author : Deyan Sudjic
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Costume design
ISBN : UVA:X001833411

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Rei Kawakubo and Comme Des Garçons by Deyan Sudjic Pdf

Author : Rex Butler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350118249

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Rei Kawakubo by Rex Butler Pdf

The Japanese fashion designer Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons is undoubtedly one of the world's major fashion designers. In 2017 she was the second living designer to ever be given a retrospective at the renowned Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Her work exerts an extraordinary influence over succeeding generations of designers and is a major point of reference for all those wishing to explore the place of fashion in contemporary culture. The 14 essays in this collection, written by eminent fashion theorists from around the world, ask what is the relationship of Kawakubo's work to art, philosophy and architecture, and ultimately illustrate how Kawakubo's creative output allows us to understand the very notion of fashion itself.

Author : Bonnie English
Publisher : Berg
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780857853134

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Japanese Fashion Designers by Bonnie English Pdf

Over the past 40 years, Japanese designers have led the way in aligning fashion with art and ideology, as well as addressing identity and social politics through dress. They have demonstrated that both creative and commercial enterprise is possible in today's international fashion industry, and have refused to compromise their ideals, remaining autonomous and independent in their design, business affairs and distribution methods. The inspirational Miyake, Yamamoto and Kawakubo have gained worldwide respect and admiration and have influenced a generation of designers and artists alike. Based on twelve years of research, this book provides a richly detailed and uniquely comprehensive view of the work of these three key designers. It outlines their major contributions and the subsequent impact that their work has had upon the next generation of fashion and textile designers around the world. Designers discussed include: Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, Rei Kawakubo, Naoki Takizawa, Dai Fujiwara, Junya Watanabe, Tao Kurihara, Jun Takahashi, Yoshiki Hishinuma, Junichi Arai, Reiko Sudo & the Nuno Corporation, Makiko Minagawa, Hiroshi Matsushita, Martin Margiela, Ann Demeulemeester, Dries Van Noten, Walter Beirendonck, Dirk Bikkembergs, Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan and Helmut Lang.

Author : Rei Kawakubo,Harold Koda
Publisher : Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fashion
ISBN : 097919914X

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ReFUSING Fashion by Rei Kawakubo,Harold Koda Pdf

One of the most elusive fashion designers in the world, Rei Kawakubo of Japan, is known for remaking the forms of clothes. Her sweaters full of holes, jackets with only one sleeve and dresses that are part dress and part pants are unique, yet always wearable. She says she wants to "design clothes that have never yet existed." The exhibition included over 40 key garments, costumes from and film of the Cunningham performance, photographs, runway footage and ephemera. The exhibition aimed to present a view of Kawakubo's work as a series of interventions and dis-ruptions in the arena of style and fashion: whether her work is thought of as anti-fashion in the world of fashion, or of ugliness and clumsiness in a system classically devoted to good taste, Kawakubo's work is a constant process of renewal of vocabulary and thinking.

Author : Rex Butler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350118232

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Rei Kawakubo by Rex Butler Pdf

The Japanese fashion designer Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons is undoubtedly one of the world's major fashion designers. In 2017 she was the second living designer to ever be given a retrospective at the renowned Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Her work exerts an extraordinary influence over succeeding generations of designers and is a major point of reference for all those wishing to explore the place of fashion in contemporary culture. The 14 essays in this collection, written by eminent fashion theorists from around the world, ask what is the relationship of Kawakubo's work to art, philosophy and architecture, and ultimately illustrate how Kawakubo's creative output allows us to understand the very notion of fashion itself.

Author : Francesca Granata
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786720290

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Experimental Fashion by Francesca Granata Pdf

Shortlisted for the Millia Davenport Publication Award Experimental Fashion traces the proliferation of the grotesque and carnivalesque within contemporary fashion and the close relation between fashion and performance art, from Lady Gaga's raw meat dress to Leigh Bowery's performance style. The book examines the designers and performance artists at the turn of the twenty-first century whose work challenges established codes of what represents the fashionable body. These innovative people, the book argues, make their challenges through dynamic strategies of parody, humour and inversion. It explores the experimental work of modern designers such as Georgina Godley, Bernhard Willhelm, Rei Kawakubo and fashion designer, performance artist, and club figure Leigh Bowery. It also discusses the increased centrality of experimental fashion through the pop phenomenon, Lady Gaga.

Author : Fionn Meade,Joan Rothfuss
Publisher : Distributed Art Publishers
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Art
ISBN : 1935963147

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Merce Cunningham by Fionn Meade,Joan Rothfuss Pdf

Published in conjuction with exhibitions held at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, February 8-July 30, 2017, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, February 11-April 30, 2017.

Author : John Waters
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429944571

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Role Models by John Waters Pdf

Here, from the incomparable John Waters, is a paean to the power of subversive inspiration that will delight, amuse, enrich—and happily horrify readers everywhere. Role Models is, in fact, a self-portrait told through intimate profiles of favorite personalities—some famous, some unknown, some criminal, some surprisingly middle-of-the-road. From Esther Martin, owner of the scariest bar in Baltimore, to the playwright Tennessee Williams; from the atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair to the insane martyr Saint Catherine of Siena; from the English novelist Denton Welch to the timelessly appealing singer Johnny Mathis—these are the extreme figures who helped the author form his own brand of neurotic happiness. Role Models is a personal invitation into one of the most unique, perverse, and hilarious artistic minds of our time.

Author : Deyan Sudjic
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Design
ISBN : UOM:39015025242655

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Rei Kawakubo and Comme Des Garçons by Deyan Sudjic Pdf

Author : France Grand
Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019748719

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Comme Des Garco̧ns by France Grand Pdf

Comme des Garcons--"like the boys"--is the title of a French soldier's song. It is also the label of Japanese designer Rei Kawakubo, whose mysterious creations are often closer to sculpture than to clothing. Here is the story of her life as one of the most influential and subversive figures in contemporary fashion.

Author : Tiffany Godoy
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : Design
ISBN : 0811857964

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Style Deficit Disorder by Tiffany Godoy Pdf

The Harajuku neighbourhood of Tokyo has become an international style mecca, a street-level fashion scene prowled by major designers looking for inspiration, and whose local, cutting-edge labels enjoy global cachet. Style Deficit Disorder is the first book to explore this remixed, fast-forward fashion hotbed, profiling its most daring and influential designers, labels, stylists, and shops. Featuring nearly 200 photos, essays by key Japanese fashion editors, and commentary by many western designers, this is a must-have, insider's look at an international fashion and pop culture epicentre, past, present, and future.

Author : E.P. Cutler,Julien Tomasello
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781452146270

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Art + Fashion by E.P. Cutler,Julien Tomasello Pdf

A volume of magnificent proportions, Art + Fashion is as exciting and elegant as the creative partnerships it celebrates. Spanning numerous eras, men and women's fashion, and a wide range of art mediums, these 25 collaborative projects reveal the astonishing work that results when luminaries from the art world (such as Pollock, Haring, and Hirst) come together with icons of the fashion world (including Saint Laurent, Westwood, McQueen). From 20th-century legends such as Elsa Schiaparelli and her famous lobster dress painted by Salvador Dalí to 21st-century trailblazers such as Cindy Sherman and her self-portraits in vintage Chanel, these electric and provocative pairings—represented in lavish visuals and thoughtful essays reflecting on the history of each project—brim with the energy and possibility of powerful forces uniting.

Author : Valerie Steele
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 0300087381

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Fifty Years of Fashion by Valerie Steele Pdf

Describes top trends and designers of the past fifty years, including their social and cultural contexts

Author : Kurt Ofer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Architectural drawing
ISBN : 1911339346

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Transparent Drawing by Kurt Ofer Pdf

Architect Kurt Ofer has formulated an utterly unique way of drawing, which gives a superior understanding of form. By following the method of "transparent drawing," you ignore an object's opacity and see beyond its surface, allowing you to draw it in a very distinct and holistic way.