Look 3, jacket and playsuit
2022
Lamentation collection, spring-summer 2023
Medium
polyester polyeurathane, polyester, cotton, plastic
Measurements
(a) 70.0 cm (centre back) 49.0 cm (waist, flat) (jacket)
(b) 75.0 cm (centre back) 33.5 cm (waist, flat) (playsuit)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of the artist, 2025
© Comme des Garçons
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
The first three looks in the Lamentation runway presentation emerged as cocoon-like silhouettes in a restrained palette of black and white, layered with felted and painted lace. The show’s statement framed the collection as ‘A lamentation for the sorrow in the world today’ and an expression of the desire for unity. Presented shortly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the collection was inevitably seen as a response to the war. Yet Kawakubo resists fixed meanings, insisting that fashion is ‘something you attach to yourself, put on, and through that interaction, the meaning of it is born’.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Japan
Inscription
(a) label, rear inner hood, woven in gold on black synthetic fabric: COMME des GARÇONS
(b) label, centre back neckline, printed in ink on cream synthetic fabric: COMME des GARÇONS
Accession Number
2025.794.a-b
Department
International Fashion and Textiles