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Look 10, dress

COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house), Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)
Look 10, dress
 2024 {Anger collection, autumn-winter 2024}

Medium
polyurethane, polyester cotton, rayon, polyester, acrylic, cupra, polyester

Measurements
150.0 cm (centre back) 44.5 cm (waist, flat)

Credit Line
Gift of the artist, 2025

Gallery location
Special Exhibitions Gallery
Ground Level, NGV International

 

About this work

For her 2024 Anger collection, Kawakubo drew on the symbolism of black to express her feelings of frustration at the world and with herself. In the 1980s, when runways were dominated by colourful, body-conscious clothes, Kawakubo used distressed fabrics, asymmetry and black to challenge Western aesthetic values. Here, in combination with motif of graffiti, barbed wire and chains, exposed zips and vinyl leathers, black represents a state of punk-fuelled disaffection.

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Japan

Department
International Fashion and Textiles

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