Floriental: Comme des Garçons' Fragrant Paradox

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Creative Director of Comme des Garçons Parfum Christian Astuguevieille has been collaborating with Rei Kawakubo and partner Adrian Joffe since 1994, and is a typically atypical addition to their ever-expanding family of avant-garde savants. He is the ultimate polymath: an artist who studied law and helped found the Pompideu Centre in the seventies, he is as renowned for his furniture and jewellery design (at one point, creating 14 collections a year) as he is as a…