"Why brilliant fashion designers, a notoriously nonanalytic breed, sometimes succeed in anticipating the shape of things to come better than professional predictors, remains one of the most obscure questions in history and, for the historian of culture, one of the most central." said Marxist historian, Eric Hobsbawm. This sentence perfectly introduces you to Rei Kawakubo's extraordinary summer, full of blood and roses. Very theatrical it was the SS15 for Comme des Garcons was very politically-historically connected. We switch from 2014 to 1914. Pain, wars, love, favourism, feeling, power- all of these things left a clew in those massive pieces. There was not even a major variation in reds; it was the same rose red, or poppy red, expressed again and again in widely different textures and silhouettes that ran like exploded and tattered versions of an invented history, one of Kawakubo's own making. It was all RED. And very dramatic and deep. The hair reminded me of Alice in The Wonderland's big-headed queen while the exaggerated hoodies felt like The Red Riding Hood. Maybe it's not hard to live between the world of kids and world of adults? Maybe we shouldn't initially think of red as blood, but more of love? Rei Kawakubo, the poet of fashion, asks us again a strong question.
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