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Genre/Form: | Exhibition catalogs Interviews Tentoonstellingscatalogi (vorm) Exhibitions |
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Named Person: | Rei Kawakubo; Rei Kawakubo; Rei Kawakubo; Rei Kawakubo |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Andrew Bolton; Rei Kawakubo; Nicholas Alan Cope; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), |
ISBN: | 1588396207 9781588396204 |
OCLC Number: | 987983283 |
Notes: | Catalog of an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from May 4-September 4, 2017. "New photography by Nicholas Alan Cope, Inez and Vinoodh, Katerina Jebb, Kazumi Kurigami, Ari Marcopoulos, Craig McDean, Brigitte Niedermair, Paolo Roversi, and Collier Schorr"--Insert. Some volumes include supplementary poster (68 x 98 cm) |
Description: | 244 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 37 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: art of the in-between -- Kawakubo/Bolton: a conversation -- Fashion, antifashion -- Design, not design -- Model, multiple -- Then, now -- High, low -- Self, other -- Object, subject -- Clothes, not clothes. |
Other Titles: | Comme des Garçons : Art of the in-between |
Responsibility: | Andrew Bolton. |
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"[A] substantial survey. . . . Kawakubo calls her clothes 'objects for the body,' and this catalog allows those objects to speak to readers who understand that fashion goes beyond what you're wearing to work tomorrow."-Library Journal"Her more than 40-year rule as the doyenne of avant-garde fashion is documented here in stunning style."-Glass Magazine"A luxurious tome destined for fashion-conscious coffee tables the world over."-Imogen Greenhalgh, Crafts Magazine"Andrew Bolton provides, in his lavishly illustrated catalogue, scholarly, thought-provoking texts which help to illuminate a pathway to this visionary fashion designer."-Alice Mackrell, Journal of Dress History"an important [text], setting a new standard for how to interrogate the work of contemporary fashion designers." - Georgina Ripley, Costume Read more...


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