Comme des Garçons navy long draped coat with cropped wool overlaying jacket — fall 2009

429.00

Size: S

Shoulder to shoulder: 44 cm / 17.3 inch

Armpit to armpit: 46 cm / 18 inch

Sleeves: 45 cm / 17.7 inch

Length: 81 – 120 cm / 31.9 – 47 inch

 

Composition:

Main:  100% cotton

Attached fabric: 90% wool 10% nylon

Lining: 100% cotton

Sleeve lining: 100% cupra

 

Details:

Navy long coat

Long sleeveless underlayer

Triangular draped fabric

Shorter dark navy wool coat consisting of a front panel and sleeves

Trenchcoat-style design with double breasted closure

Chest flap

Standard triangular collar with hook closure

Cropped sleeves with belts

Opening underneath the armpits

Two inner pockets

Unlined

From the fall 2009 runway collection

AD 2009

 

Condition: 4,5/5

Excellent condition

In stock

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Description

About Rei Kawakubo

Rei Kawakubo is a Japanese fashion designer, however, she didn’t study fashion but fine arts and literature at Keio University in Tokyo.

 

After graduation, she worked as a stylist before launching her label Comme des Garçons. Going against the 1980s super feminine look, she sent an all black, deconstructed collection on the runway, dubbed “anti-fashion” and “Hiroshima Chic” by easily shocked and insensitive journalists.

 

During the 1980s, her garments were primarily in black and dark grey or white. By the time of her Paris debut in 1981, Kawakubo was so famous that her fans were dubbed ‘the crows’ in the Japanese press.

 

Comme des Garçons kept on growing, evolving into a Comme de Garçons ‘world’ with about 20 distinct lines. This also gave Rei Kawakubo the possibility to give employees their own line, like Junya Watanabe, (the now discontinued) Tao Kurihara en the recently added Noir by Kei Ninomiya.

 

Kawakubo specializes in anti-fashion; producing deconstructed garments, which are draped around the body in an asymmetric shape, making them look awkward and uncomfortable. The hems are often unfinished and frayed.

Rei Kawakubo is reclusive and doesn’t give many interviews, she let’s her creations speak for themselves. She is know as a fashion icon and influence for designers like Martin Margiela, Ann Demeulemeester and Helmut Lang which have all name checked Kawakubo as an inspiration.