Rei Kawakubo isn't an artist, but a fashion designer, although
her brand is showcased in among the
exhibition installations at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art (MET) located in the center of nice.
The ideas behind the Comme des Garcons style doesn't
need to do with art or the considering using the exhibition display services at
the museum, and regardless of the truth that Comme des Garcons has turned into
among the most internationally recognizable Japanese fashion brands, Kawakubo
stated her work was mostly rejected for several years. However she said she's
convinced that the instalment and displays showcased in the acrylic
showcases at the exhibit that was predicated on a shared belief of art and
fashion "came together nicely" from the series at New York.
The Comme Des Garcons Exhibition is the largest series of
this year for the MET's Costume Institute. It is merely the museum's second
solo series on a dwelling fashion designer, following one in 1983 for Yves
Saint Laurent. Kawakubo was created in 1942, and her Comme des Garcons brand
first featured in Paris Fashion Week in 1981.
The name for the collection of exhibition installations is
"Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art of the In-Between" and the
exhibition features roughly 140 garments from the past four decades, and the
function of the exhibition was to blur the lines of art and style and excite
people to think differently about clothing, shoes and other accessories after
picturing them in a display showcase. Kawakubo herself designed the series’
maze-like setup, including the very small pockets and layered space dividers;
each section contains nine sets of contradictory theories, such as
"Self/Other" and "Clothes/Not Clothes." The clothing and
women's shoe exhibited signify the "in-betweenness" of those ideas.
Kawakubo said she was also adamant it's not a
"retrospective" series; also she explained why she set up the glass
showcase system herself. "I agreed to do this show about the conditions
that it wouldn't be treated as a retrospective and I would be permitted to show
my clothes in a means which was different from normal fashion designer
exhibitions".
Kawakubo wished to make a setting which allows audiences to
really have a conversation with all the clothes and even though the concept of
"in-betweenness" was not present in her clothing line, she explain
that "[she's] just hoping to create something that has never existed. The
boundaries between women and men, or west and east, have nothing to do with
me...but, as the result of simultaneously building up curation and installation
ideas predicated on a shared motif, I believe that the exhibition display
showcases came together well."
When asked what the exhibition means to her, the Comme des
Garcons creator Said she hoped it'd be a model example for the holding of
prospective summary exhibitions. She
said those who claim long-established notions likely rejected plans for the
show, which the curator told her he had difficulty winning over
traditionalists on the idea for the screen. "I feel I was never highly
praised by the vast majority of people in my 40-year career," Kawakubo
explained.
She continued: "I was constantly unwelcome by half of
those folks. At Japanese Department stores, it is still rare to see a shop of a
(internationally acclaimed) Japanese programmer manufacturer in the exact same
floor area as high-end overseas manufacturers. In this way, too, I believe what
I've been doing has started to gain some comprehension."
She stated the values of individuals who protect historical
customs and authority are in full contrast to Comme des Garcons' values, which
arouses the idea of being exactly the same as others. However, she stated that
the apparent spread of xenophobic attitudes from the U.S. could unravel this
advancement. "Recently, the tendency appears increasingly to be moving
another way. This exhibition might have not been realized in the United States
had it been scheduled a year after," Kawakubo said. "It's not any
good if these thinking spread into the world of fashion."
Some state that Kawakubo might now be called an artist for getting
exhibition installations shown at the MET. She rejected this idea. "A
fashion designer is not an artist," she said. "Fashion is
development, but it always relates to business. To keep it simple, for me,
style is a business. Kawakubo believes that her role is to market fashion in
the kind of women's shoes or clothing to make a viable business for her, it's
not about the art, and it's a business.
