COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house)<br />
 Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)<br/>
<em>Jacket, bodysuit, skirt, leggings and boots</em> 1991 {Chic Punk collection, autumn-winter 1991–92} (detail)<br />

wool, polyvinyl chloride, synthetic fabric, nylon, polyurethane, plastic, leather, metal (fastenings)<br />
(a) 70.0 cm (centre back) 59.5 cm (sleeve length) (jacket) (b) 74.0 cm (centre front) 33.5 cm (waist, flat) (bodysuit) (c) 94.0 cm (centre back) 34.5 cm (waist, flat) (skirt) (d) 103.0 x 29.0 cm (leggings) (e-f) 24.5 x 9.5 x 25.0 cm (each) (boots)<br />
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne<br />
Gift of Takamasa Takahashi and David Tune, 2020<br />
2020.809<br />
© Comme des Garçons
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Construction / Destruction

Sat 7 Dec 19, 2.30pm–3pm

COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house)<br /> Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)<br/> <em>Jacket, bodysuit, skirt, leggings and boots</em> 1991 {Chic Punk collection, autumn-winter 1991–92} (detail)<br /> wool, polyvinyl chloride, synthetic fabric, nylon, polyurethane, plastic, leather, metal (fastenings)<br /> (a) 70.0 cm (centre back) 59.5 cm (sleeve length) (jacket) (b) 74.0 cm (centre front) 33.5 cm (waist, flat) (bodysuit) (c) 94.0 cm (centre back) 34.5 cm (waist, flat) (skirt) (d) 103.0 x 29.0 cm (leggings) (e-f) 24.5 x 9.5 x 25.0 cm (each) (boots)<br /> National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne<br /> Gift of Takamasa Takahashi and David Tune, 2020<br /> 2020.809<br /> © Comme des Garçons <!--141061-->
Past program

Free entry

NGV International

Exhibition space
Level 3

Throughout her career fashion designer Rei Kawakubo has pioneered conceptual and creative working methods. A collection might start with a crumpled wad of paper or an abstract phrase, and result in garments that ignore function, play with scale and proportion, or offer multiple possibilities for use.

Considering four key runway collections by Comme des Garçons that deconstruct our expectation of fashion, NGV curator Danielle Whitfield leads a highlight tour of Collecting Comme.

Speaker
Danielle Whitfield, Curator, Fashion and Textiles, NGV
Tours Decorative Arts Design Fashion & Textiles International Collecting Comme