Dress
Brand
Comme des Garçons
(Japanese, founded 1969)
Designer
Rei Kawakubo
(born 1942)
Fall 1997
Grey ramie and cotton
Museum purchase
Object number2005.7.1
Rei Kawakubo’s off-kilter designs had become incredibly influential by the late 1990s. Writing about her fall 1997 collection, Vogue noted, “Kawakubo’s take on pattern making is a send-up of the way clothes are made . . . her exploration of rough-hewn craftsmanship for Comme des Garçons manages to appear complex and naïve at the same time.”
DescriptionAsymmetrical, deconstructed dress in grey ramie layered over cotton; floor length irregular tube draped, cut and stitched with exposed raw edges, and contrast white tailors' tacks, RF and B fish darts and RS white zipper, curved and slanted seams; slashed V-neck and armholes, curved capelet over left shoulder draped into vertical stitched panel at CF and RBExhibitions