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...No21 cotton trousers and wool scarf, both POA Limamu wears Jean Paul Gaultier vintage cotton top, from a selection, at 20agearchive....
...The last thing I bought and loved was some strange bow-legged blue metallic jeans from Ganni....
...APC cotton denim jeans, £210. Swarovski archive necklace, stylist’s own. Lucas wears Hermès cotton poplin shirt, £960....
...This season, Valentino menswear includes suiting, shirts and jeans emblazoned with texts from Hanya Yanagihara’s bestselling 2015 novel A Little Life....
...the New Romantics and the Blitz Kids, both glamorous and androgynous movements born out of the UK nightclub scene, to the style revolution brought to Paris by Japanese designers Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons...
...Jean Paul Gaultier, who sold to Puig in 2011, is still involved with his label even though he has retired....
...For anyone on the fence, he recommends “throwing one over a wide-leg jean”, like A$AP Rocky at this year’s Met Gala. “If he can, so can anyone!”...
...Fashion historian Mairi MacKenzie recently researched the old Comme des Garçons outpost....
...As well as having an encyclopaedic understanding of the work of Miuccia Prada, she also supported avant-garde designers, notably Yohji Yamamoto, Ann Demeulemeester and Commes des Garçons....
...Paris also played host over the weekend to Comme des Garçons’ Rei Kawakubo and her protégés Junya Watanabe and Kei Ninomiya....
...Someone would wear head-to-toe Comme des Garçons or Donna Karan. It’s not that way any more. Now people don’t care; they mix it up.”...
...“I love designers that can create a total fantasy and take you to a different world, like Comme des Garçons. But that’s not the sort of designer I am....
...If Watanabe’s menswear often looks at American workwear, easy shapes, jeans and trainers, his womenswear is often sculptural, extreme. Translating that to menswear was extraordinary and invigorating....
...Second, his designs tend to be less challenging than those of subjects of past monographic shows (only a handful of guests at the 2017 Met Gala, honouring Rei Kawakubo, wore her brand Comme des Garçons)....
...So I thought — Gucci, Margiela, Comme des Garçons! Then I saw Galliano . . . the events kept arriving.”...
...From the Damascus steel of a Shun knife to the advanced polyesters at Comme des Garçons, it connects heritage obsession with forward-thinking technology....
...Comme des Garçons cotton-mix jacket, cotton-mix shirt and jersey T-shirt, all POA....
...Comme des Garçons designer Rei Kawakubo wrote that she too wanted to “go back to the starting point, working with free patterns, using basic materials.”...
...Yes, it currently stocks The Vampire’s Wife, but it was always more Jean Muir than Jean Paul Gaultier....
...The SS23 Junya Watanabe Man collection features Haring’s work, as well as that of his peers and friends Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol....
...Michele De Lucchi metal and wood First chair, €1,580 Mauvais Garçons vintage cotton shirt, POA. John Smedley cotton Lorca T-shirt, £120. Polo Ralph Lauren cotton jeans, £179....
...“I’ve never owned a pair of jeans, and I’ve never drunk a Coca-Cola,” says Gene Sherman. “People ask me, What are your comfortable clothes? Well, Miyake is comfortable....
...A challenge came from Rei Kawakubo who, in 1982 under her label Comme des Garçons, presented a collection in Paris of black knitwear pock-marked with holes....
...Some of those labels sell sweatshirts and hoodies, leather jackets and jeans; others proffer elaborate and expensive ballgowns in silks and jacquards....
...She has honed her look to match her business’s pop aesthetic by collecting 1990s Comme des Garçons and vintage Japanese pieces to wear with an array of sportswear in primary colours....
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