Ensemble
2016
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Dress in pink PU leather with frilled shoulder and arm detail, cut-out in front.
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Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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Materials and techniques | Polyurethane leather |
Brief description | dress and coat, pink PU leather, designed by Rei Kawakubo for Comme des Garçons, Tokyo, Autumn-Winter 2016. |
Physical description | Dress in pink PU leather with frilled shoulder and arm detail, cut-out in front. |
Gallery label | Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion text
THE BODY REINTERPRETED
REI KAWAKUBO
The outrage surrounding Balenciaga’s ‘sack’ dress in the 1950s was echoed in the controversy caused by Rei Kawakubo’s early collections in the 1970s for her label Comme des Garçons. Some interpreted the sack-like shapes as an attack on Western notions of beauty. Today, her increasingly architectural, often one-off designs continue to be inspired by traditional Japanese dress and are as much about the space around the body as the body itself.
Woman’s ensemble
Polyurethane leather
Rei Kawakubo for Comme des Garçons, Tokyo,
Autumn/Winter 2016
Purchase funded by the Lee
Alexander McQueen Fund for
Fashion
V&A: T.39:1, 2-2017(2017-2018) |
Credit line | Purchase funded by the Lee Alexander McQueen Fund for Fashion |
Object history | Displayed in the V&A's Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion exhibition (2017-2018). |
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Accession number | T.39-2017 |
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Record created | October 4, 2016 |
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