Rei Kawakubo
Founded Comme des Garcons and upended Western fashion with deconstructed, asymmetric, deliberately 'imperfect' clothing.
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Rei Kawakubo is a Japanese fashion designer based in Tokyo and Paris. She is the founder of Comme des Garçons and Dover Street Market. In recognition of the notable design contributions of Kawakubo, an exhibition of her designs entitled Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons, Art of the In-Between opened on 5 May 2017 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, modeled by Rihanna.
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.
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Founded Comme des Garcons and upended Western fashion with deconstructed, asymmetric, deliberately 'imperfect' clothing.
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