The Most Controversial Fashion Show of All Time

Today, we’re covering the most conceptual fashion show of all time - Comme des Garçon’s Spring 1997 show - Body Meets Dress-Dress Meets Body. This show lets us into incredibly important fashion designer Rei Kawakubo’s process as an artist, as we discuss how her impact in business and culture through this crucial show. The knowledge that I gained to make this video over the course of 3 years is supplied by authors on the subject whose work is listed below. We’re going to go deep into why this show is the best, most important, most revolutionary fashion show of all time. Through the original runway show, as well as her collaborations adjacent to it such as with Visionaire Magazine and Merch Cunningham, we will learn how concept made its way into fashion to stay for good - almost like this is some paid online fashion school :)

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Works Cited:
Bolton, Andrew. 2017. Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between. 1st. ed. New Haven, Connecticut: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Butler, Rex. 2023. Rei Kawakubo: For and Against Fashion. 1st. ed. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Publishing.

Evans, Caroline. 2007. Fashion at the Edge: Spectacle, Modernity, and Deathliness. 2nd ed. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.

Frankel, Susannah. “Comme des Garçons: The Best Showroom in the World.” AnOther Magazine, March 10, 2017.

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Gan, Stephen and Rei Kawakubo. “The Comme Des Garcons Issue.” Visionaire Magazine, January 1, 1997: 20.

Granata, Francesca. 2021. Experimental Fashion: Performance Art, Carnival and the Grotesque Body. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Publishing.

Grand, France. 1998. Comme Des Garçons: Mémoire de la Mode. 1st. ed. Kyoto, Japan: Korinsha press.

Hori, Victor S. 2000. “Koan and Kensho in the Rinzai Zen Curriculum.” The Koan: Texts and Contexts in Zen Buddhism, no. 1: 280-315.

Lamont, Bethany Rose. Body Meets Dress, Dress Meets Body, 2014.

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Mower, Sarah. “A Day with Rei.” Vogue Japan, 2001.

?, Hilary. “I am going with dress ups, but what sort of dress?” SoLoveToSewLikeTheBoys, July 14, 2015.

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