Rei Kawakubo

For and Against Fashion

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-11822-5 (ISBN)

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The Japanese fashion designer Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons is undoubtedly one of the world’s major fashion designers. In 2017 she was the second living designer to ever be given a retrospective at the renowned Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Her work exerts an extraordinary influence over succeeding generations of designers and is a major point of reference for all those wishing to explore the place of fashion in contemporary culture.

The 14 essays in this collection, written by eminent fashion theorists from around the world, ask what is the relationship of Kawakubo’s work to art, philosophy and architecture, and ultimately illustrate how Kawakubo's creative output allows us to understand the very notion of fashion itself.

Rex Butler is Professor of Art History at the School of Art, Design and Architecture, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of the Reader's Guides to Deleuze and Guattari's 'What is Philosophy?' (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Borges' Short Stories (Bloomsbury, 2010), and, with David Denny, co-editor of Lars von Trier's Women (Bloomsbury, 2018).

List of Illustrations

1. Rex Butler (editor) ‘Introduction: For and against Fashion’
2. Akiko Fukai ‘Couture Clash’ (excerpt)
3. Barbara Vinken ‘The Empire Designs Back’ (excerpt)
4. Karinna Nobbs and Kat Duffy ‘Rei Kawakubo as Retail Format Pioneer’
5. Llewellyn Negrin ‘Rei Kawakubo: Agent Provocateur in a Hyper-Glamourised World’
6. Yuniya Kawamura ‘Rei Kawakubo: Defiance Personified’
7. Masafumi Monden ‘The Subversively Cute Side of Comme des Garçons: Rei Kawakubo and Romantic Transgression’
8. Tets Kimura ‘Exploring the Theoretical Meaning of Rei Kawakubo: Two Waves of Arrivals of Japanese Fashion in the West and Georg Simmel’s Fashion Dualism’
9. Karen de Perthuis ‘Performing the Idea of Clothes: Rei Kawakubo’s Fashion Manifesto’
10. Ory Bartal ‘Rei Kawakubo and the Luxury of Freedom’
11. Bronwyn Clark-Coolee ‘The Complexity of Kawakubo: A Radical Form of Consciousness’
12. Adam Geczy and Vicki Karaminas ‘Between Clothing and Flesh: Kawakubo at the Met’
13. Alison Gill ‘From Amidst the Betwixt and Between: The Gap between the Not-Worn and the Worn that is Opened Up by the Photographic Images in Rei Kawakubo’s Exhibition Catalogue’
14. Rex Butler ‘Rei Kawakubo: Fashion Degree Zero’

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Erscheinungsdatum	23.04.2021
Zusatzinfo	16 colour and 44 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Sozialwissenschaften
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	1-350-11822-2 / 1350118222
ISBN-13	978-1-350-11822-5 / 9781350118225
Zustand	Neuware