SPIRITUAL WORLD. White is symbolic of prayer.
The traces above are transcribed straight from the notice Rei Kawakubo wrote, and had translated into English to accompany—if in a roundabout way to elucidate—her Comme des Garçons Homme Plus present. Properly, you knew what she was saying. Helpless earlier than the state of the world, what can we do however pray?
Typically, you come to Comme braced to be disturbed or intellectually poked by the sensation you’re failing to get one thing. (That, bizarre to say, is a part of the fun). Different occasions, one in every of Kawakubo’s exhibits can catch you off guard by simply being humorous. However this season, she judged that neither confrontation nor mirth had been attainable. If trend has an emotional function to play, it’s to be light, calm, soothing.
As little as she communicates in phrases, Kawakubo conveyed that feeling by means of the contemplation of fuzzy, felted surfaces, cutaway jackets like shrunken cardigans and trousers (or anti-trousers) with voluminous, drapey folds. At some factors, she did away with trousers and changed them with white pleated skirts. Then got here knitwear: mushy cages, lacy baby-knit sweaters, worn with frilly, virtually Victorian bloomers.
In a season of ubiquitously darkish, sober tailoring, it was a respite of kinds to spend a half hour in Kawakubo’s world of different masculinity. Not all the things she did was white. There have been black and navy jackets, a few of them embroidered with pearl buttons, not not like the East London Pearly King folks custom. There’s not even a shadow of poisonous masculinity, militarism or aggression inside Rei Kawakubo’s woman-designed Comme des Garçons universe. If solely that might be true of the world exterior.
