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1996 {Body Meets Dress – Dress Meets Body collection spring-summer 1997}
Medium
nylon, polyurethane, cotton, down
Measurements
(a) 48.0 cm (centre back) 20.0 cm (sleeve length) (top)
(b) (variable) (small bump)
(c) (variable) (large bump)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented through the NGV Foundation by Takamasa Takahashi, Fellow, 2005
© Comme des Garçons
Gallery location
Special Exhibitions Gallery
Ground Level, NGV International
About this work
The first look in Kawakubo’s radical Body Meets Dress–Dress Meets Body collection, this work marries transparency, lightness and floating volume with small kidney-shaped insets at the shoulder blades. At the time of its presentation, journalists both praised and criticised the collection, coining it ‘lumps and bumps’ for its distorted, padded forms. Kawakubo sought to work without restriction, collapsing the boundary between body and garment and proposing a state of unity in which clothing becomes the body and the body becomes clothing.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Japan
Inscription
(a) label, centre back neckline, printed in ink on white synthetic fabric: COMME des GARCONS
label, centre back neckline, printed in ink on white synthetic fabric: S
label, centre back neckline, printed in ink on white synthetic fabric: ET - 10021S / MAIN / 90% NYLON NYLON / 10% POLYURETHANE / POLYURETHANE / ATTACHED FABRIC / TISSUS AJOUTE / 80% COTTON COTON / 20% NYLON NYLON / PADDING COUSSINET / 80% DOWN / DUVET D'OIE / 20% FEATHER / DUVET D'OIE
printed in ink on white synthetic fabric: COMME des GARCONS Co., Ltd. / MADE IN JAPAN / FABRIQUE AU JAPON
printed in red ink (in Japanese characters) on white synthetic fabric on reverse: (maker's mark)
label, left seamline, printed in ink on white synthetic fabric: COMME des GARCONS, CO., LTD.
printed in ink on white synthetic fabric on reverse: model ET - 10021 S B S / MAIN / 90% NYLON NYLON / FABRIC 10% POLYURETHANE POLYURETHANE / ATTACHED FABRIC 80% COTTON COTON / TISSUS AJOUTE / PRICE PADDING 80% (...illeg.) / COUSSINET 20% / COMME des GARCONS / fabrique au Japon / made in Japan
Accession Number
2005.376.a-c
Department
International Fashion and Textiles
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