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COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house), Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)
Dress
 1985
Bias Cutting collection, spring-summer 1986

Medium
polyester, plastic (buttons)

Measurements
119.0 cm (centre back) 39.0 cm (waist, flat)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Takamasa Takahashi through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program, 2019
© Comme des Garçons

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Gallery location
Level 3, NGV International

 

About this work

This collection is notable as one of the first instances where Kawakubo created a silhouette that followed the natural lines of the female body. Much like the early twentieth-century French couturier Madeleine Vionnet, who used bias cutting in a revolutionary way to recast the relationship between body and fabric, here Kawakubo uses the technique to explore ideas of irregularity and asymmetry.

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Japan

Accession Number
2019.414

Department
International Fashion and Textiles

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