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Rei Kawakubo

Rei Kawakubo

Fashion Design

, Japan

The story

She hit 1980s Paris with clothes full of holes and lumps that critics called 'Hiroshima chic,' then made the industry admit ugliness could be the point. Founded Comme des Garcons and upended Western fashion with deconstructed, asymmetric, deliberately 'imperfect' clothing.

Their craft

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