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The 2017 Costume Institute exhibition "Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between" showcased the work of fashion designer Rei Kawakubo, known for her avant-garde style, whose work served as the dress code for the Met Gala. The space featured around 140 examples of Kawakubo's womenswear for the Japanese fashion label Comme des Garçons, dating from the early 1980s to her most recent collection, organized into nine categories that illustrated the designer's revolutionary experiments in "in-betweenness". The categories, each representing different aesthetic expressions of interstitiality in Kawakubo's work, are Absence/Presence,…

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The 2017 Costume Institute exhibition "Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between" showcased the work of fashion designer Rei Kawakubo, known for her avant-garde style, whose work served as the dress code for the Met Gala. The space featured around 140 examples of Kawakubo's womenswear for the Japanese fashion label Comme des Garçons, dating from the early 1980s to her most recent collection, organized into nine categories that illustrated the designer's revolutionary experiments in "in-betweenness". The categories, each representing different aesthetic expressions of interstitiality in Kawakubo's work, are Absence/Presence, Design/Not Design, Fashion/Anti-Fashion, Model/Multiple, Then/Now, High/Low, Self/Other, Object/Subject, and Clothes/Not Clothes. 

This event was co-chaired by celebrities including Tom Brady, Gisele Bündchen, Katy Perry, Pharrell Williams, and Anna Wintour.

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The 2017 Costume Institute exhibition "Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between" showcased the work of fashion designer Rei Kawakubo, known for her avant-garde style, whose work served as the dress code for the Met Gala. The space featured around 140 examples of Kawakubo's womenswear for the Japanese fashion label Comme des Garçons, dating from the early 1980s to her most recent collection, organized into nine categories that illustrated the designer's revolutionary experiments in "in-betweenness". The categories, each representing different aesthetic expressions of interstitiality in Kawakubo's work, are Absence/Presence, Design/Not Design, Fashion/Anti-Fashion, Model/Multiple, Then/Now,…


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