Comme des Garçons brought Japanese avant-garde to the West in 1981 with its groundbreaking Paris début, introducing deconstruction, asymmetry, and monochromatic color schemes as a new paradigm for conceptual fashion. Head designer Rei Kawakubo’s creations have since maintained a reputation for their radical 'anti-fashion' aesthetic and frequent forays into gender fluidity--their penchant for challenging and redefining the boundaries of beauty and fashionability. Exploring the “in-between-ness” of dualisms like high/low and presence/absence in an astonishing range of original pieces, the label she built remains an innovative, intellectually potent force in the fashion world--one that has never left the cutting edge.
Content: Crushed clusters of spicy sweet pink peppercorns. The enlightening intensity of Indonesian ginger. A luminous layer. Earthen emissions from fresh sliced beetroot. Egyptian Geranium leaves, minty and metallic. Grounded wonder. The resinous romance of sticky incense. Woody patchouli dosed with the aromatic amber of cistus. A sacred sensuality.