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Legendary Japanese designer Rei Kawakubo founded Comme des Garçons (French for “like the boys”) in Tokyo in 1969 and debuted Homme Plus, her company’s premier men’s line, in 1978. Known for her deconstructed, sculptural approach to garments and bodies, Kawakubo’s latest Homme Plus collection, entitled “Embracing Beauty in the Dark,” mines the many meaning of darkness as it aims “to embrace all of life; both good and bad, and to understand that even joy can be tinged with sadness, and that love can be bittersweet.” Drawing design details from punk, goth, and BDSM, Kawakubo elevates the aesthetics of subcultures that polite society has historically seen as abhorrent to the same stage as fine tailoring. The result is a tour de force of gender and genre-defying clothes rendered almost entirely in dark blues and blacks. |
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Photography: Drake Sweeney Styling: Raissa Gomes Model: Marco Garcia Text: Jacob Victorine |
Comme des Garçons Homme Plus FW19
