Dress
1985
Bias cutting collection, spring-summer 1986
Medium
nylon, polyester, cotton, polyurethane
Measurements
101.0 cm (centre back) 33.0 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
Gallery location
Not on display
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
Inscription
label, centre back waistline, printed in ink on white synthetic fabric: COMME des GARÇONS
label, centre back waistline, printed in ink on white synthetic fabric: S
Accession Number
2019.415
Department
International Fashion and Textiles