TAILORED APOCALYPSES WITH ZIPPERS THAT OPEN TO REGRET: COMME DES GARçONS AND THE ELEGANCE OF UNRAVELING

There’s a certain terror in elegance—a polished poise that conceals chaos. This is the kind of elegance Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons has always been obsessed with, though she rarely calls it that. Her work, instead, speaks the language of contradictions: tailored destruction, beautiful asymmetry, Comme Des Garcons and silhouettes that be