AN ELEGY COMPOSED IN OVERSIZED BUTTONS AND RAW EDGES: COMME DES GARçONS AS MODERN POETRY

There are few names in fashion that transcend trend, season, or commerciality. Comme des Garçons—founded by Rei Kawakubo in 1969—is not one of those names. It is the name. A conceptual engine in a sea of repetition, Comme des Garçons has long been less a label than a language, less a brand than a brutalist cathedral of cloth and conviction.