Timeline
Archival Materials
Seditionaries clothing featured in DELUXE, no. 1, 1977
Purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Gallery Library, 2025
Sex Pistols ‘God Save The Queen’ 7″ vinyl record and sleeve, 1977
Purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Gallery Library, 2025
A temporary Comme des Garçons stall inside the HELP market in Harajuku, featured in an an, vol. 3, no. 16, 5 September 1972
Gift of Takamasa Takahashi and David Tune, 2019
Comme des Garçons garments, 1978, photographed by Hideki Hosoya, Comme des Garçons 1975–1982 photobook, 1982
Purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Gallery Library, 2025
Westwood’s ‘mini-crini’, featured on the cover of The Face, no. 85, May 1987
Purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Gallery Library, 2025
Sara Stockbridge wearing Vivienne Westwood on the cover of i-D magazine’s fiftieth anniversary issue, no. 50, August 1987
Purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Gallery Library, 2025
Westwood on the cover of Tatler, vol. 284, no. 4, April 1989
Purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Gallery Library, 2025
Vivienne Westwood feature article in i-D, no. 45, March 1987
Purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Gallery Library, 2025
Pattern pieces for the crown, designed by milliner Stephen Jones, from Vivienne Westwood’s 1987 Harris Tweed collection
Promised gift of Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM and family
Comme des Garçons’ Pirates collection, 1981, photographed by Peter Lindbergh, Comme des Garçons 1981–1986 photobook, 1986
Gift of Takamasa Takahashi and David Tune, 2019
Comme des Garçons’ Bonding collection, 1986, photographed by Steven Meisel, Comme des Garçons press book no. 94, 10 September 1986
Gift of Takamasa Takahashi and David Tune, 2019
Comme des Garçons’ Six magazine, no. 1, 1988
Purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Gallery Library, 2025
Westwood on the cover of The Sunday Times Magazine, 3 April 1994
Purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Gallery Library, 2025
Invitation to Vivienne Westwood’s Anglomania collection presentation, 1993
Purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Gallery Library, 2025
Stamp featuring outfit from Vivienne Westwood’s 1993 Anglomania collection, from the Great British Fashion stamp series, printed by Royal Mail, 2012
Purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Gallery Library, 2025
Kawakubo on the cover of Weekly Asahigraph, 20 August 1993, published for the twentieth anniversary of Comme des Garçons, Co. Ltd
Gift of Takamasa Takahashi and David Tune, 2019
Comme des Garçons featured on the cover of Purple, no. 2, winter 1998–99
Purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Gallery Library, 2025
Editorial campaign poster for Comme des Garçons’ autumn–winter 1994 collections, photographed by Cindy Sherman
Gift of Takamasa Takahashi and David Tune, 2019
Comme des Garçons issue of Visionaire, no. 20, edition no. 90/2800, 1997
Purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Gallery Library, 2025
Actress and model Anita Pallenberg (left) and artist Tracey Emin (right) modelling for Vivienne Westwood’s 2001 Exploration collection campaign, i-D, no. 208, April 2001
Purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Gallery Library, 2025
Westwood’s Active Resistance to Propaganda, 2007
Westwood Archive, London
Excellence in Design Award publication dedicated to Kawakubo, 2000
Purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Gallery Library, 2025
Comme des Garçons feature article in Dazed & Confused, vol. 2, no. 17, September 2004
Purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Gallery Library, 2025
Comme des Garçons promotional materials, 2001
NGV archive collection
Vivienne Westwood Climate action scarf, c. 2010s
Purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Gallery Library, 2025
Vivienne Westwood Climate revolution T-shirt, c. 2012–13
Purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Gallery Library, 2025
Westwood on the cover of i-D, no. 318, spring 2012
Purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Gallery Library, 2025
Vivienne Westwood feature article in The Gentlewoman, no. 9, spring–summer 2014
Purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Gallery Library, 2025
Raw Vision × Comme des Garçons fold-out program, 2014
Purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Gallery Library, 2025
Comme des Garçons featured on the cover of AnOther Magazine, vol. 2, no. 5, spring/summer 2017
Purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Gallery Library, 2025
Comme des Garçons feature article in System, no. 2, autumn–winter 2013
Purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Gallery Library, 2025
Iris Apfel wearing Comme des Garçons in Dazed & Confused, vol. 3, no. 15, November 2012
Purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Gallery Library, 2025
Westwood on the cover of Dazed, vol. 4, summer 2018
Purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Gallery Library, 2025
Westwood on the cover of Dazed, vol. 4, summer 2018
Purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Gallery Library, 2025
Westwood on the cover of Dazed, vol. 4, summer 2018
Purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Gallery Library, 2025
Comme des Garçons featured on the cover of Vogue Japan, no. 215, July 2017
Purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Gallery Library, 2025
Comme des Garçons featured on the cover of Vogue Japan, no. 243, November 2019
Purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Gallery Library, 2025
Comme des Garçons featured on the cover of Vogue Japan, no. 303, November 2024
Purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Gallery Library, 2025