comme-des-garcons official site
1942년 도쿄 출생
1964년 게이오기주쿠대학[慶應義塾大學] 미술학부에서 순수 예술과 문학 전공
섬유화학업체인 아사히카세이[旭化成]에서 사진과 광고일 시작을 계기로 스타일리스트일 시작
1967년 스타일리스트로 프리랜서활동을 시작
1969년 라벨없이 부인복 제조 판매
1973년 도쿄에 여성복 브랜드로 꼼므 데 가르송을 런칭
1975년 도쿄에서 첫 여성복 컬렉션을 선보였으며 이듬해 파리에 직영점 오픈
1978년 남성복 출시
1981년 요지야먀모토와 파리 컬렉션 초청, 첫 쇼
안티패션, 아방가르드의 시초 '히로시마 시크'라는 닉네임을 얻음
1981년부터 파리와 도쿄 두 곳에서 매 시즌 컬렉션
1986년 나이트 오브 더 스타상 수상
1988년 마이니치 신문 패션상 수상
1991년 뵈브클리코 비지니스우먼상 수상
1993년 프랑스 예술훈장 슈발리에장 수상
2004년 프랑스 정부로부터 국가공로훈장 수상
Rei Kawakubo (川久保 玲 Kawakubo Rei, born 11th October 1942 in Tokyo) is a Japanese fashion designer, founder of Comme des Garçons.
She is untrained as a fashion designer, but studied fine arts and literature at Keio University.
After graduation, Kawakubo worked in a textile company and began working as a freelance stylist in 1967.
In 1973, she established her own company, Comme des Garçons Co. Ltd in Tokyo and opened up her first boutique in Tokyo in 1975.
Starting out with women's clothes, Kawakubo added a men's line in 1978.
Three years later, she started presenting her fashion lines in Paris each season, opening up a boutique in Paris in 1982.
Comme des Garçons specialises in anti-fashion, austere, sometimes deconstructed garments.
During the 1980s, her garments were primarily in black, dark grey or white.
The materials were often draped around the body and featured frayed, unfinished edges along with holes and a general asymmetrical shape.
Challenging the established notions of beauty she created an uproar at her debut Paris fashion show where journalists labeled her clothes 'Hiroshima chic' amongst other things.
Since the late 1980s her colour palette has grown somewhat.
Rei likes to have input in all the various aspects of her business, rather than just focussing on clothes and accessories.
She is greatly involved in graphic design, advertising and shop interiors believing that all these things are a part of one vision and are inextricably linked.
Her Aoyama, Tokyo store is known for its sloping glass facade decorated with blue dots.
This was designed in collaboration between Rei and architect Future Systems and interior designer Takao Kawasaki.
Rei published her own bi-annual magazine, 'Six' (standing for 'sixth sense'), in the early 1990s.
It featured very little text and consisted mainly for photographs and images that she deemed inspiring.
In 1996 Rei was guest editor of the high art publication Visionaire.
Rei is known to be quite reclusive and media shy, preferring her innovative creations to speak for themselves.
Her designs have inspired many other late designers like the Belgian Martin Margiela and Ann Demeulemeester, as well as Austrian designer Helmut Lang.
Junya Watanabe, Kawakubo's former apprentice, started his own line in the early 1990s and has attained much attention in the fashion business in his own right.
Kawakubo is a member of the Chambre Syndicale du Prêt-à-Porter.
Kawakubo created the 2008 autumn "guest designer" collection at H&M, designing men's and women's clothing along with some children's and a unisex perfume.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rei_Kawakubo
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