AZZEDINE ALAÏA HUSSEIN CHALAYAN   COMME DES GARÇONS   HELMUT LANG   JEAN PAUL GAULTIER   MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA   ALEXANDER McQUEEN   ISSEY MIYAKE   JUNYA WATANABE, COMME DES GARÇONS   VIVIENNE WESTWOOD   YOHJI YAMAMOTO

THE DESIGNERS COMME DES GARÇONS RED AND WITE PATTERNED DRESS FABRIC COMME DES GARÇONS SPRING SUMMER 2001 COMME DES GARÇONS INSTALLATION FOR RADICAL FASHION AT THE V&A PHOTOGRAPHY BY JERRY HARDMAN-JONES © VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM EXHIBITION DESIGN: EVENT COMMUNICATIONS LTD MOVIE CLIP | T1 | 56.6 | Rei Kawakubo was born in Tokyo in 1942 and launched the Comme des Garçons label in Japan in 1969. She made an indelible impression on Paris in the early 1980s with ripped and knotted fabrics, sombre colours and asymmetrical detailing. Kawakubo has said 'What I do is not influenced by what has happened in fashion or culture. I work from obscure abstract images to create a fresh concept of beauty'. THE EXHIBITION | THE DESIGNERS | PROGRAMME OF EVNTS | PUBLICATIONS | FASHION STUDY RESOURCES | PLANNING YOUR VISIT | BOOK YOU TICKETS ONLINE | OTHER LINKS | EXTRAS | QUIZ DISCLAIMER ©2001 V&A Museum, All rights reserved.