Lumps and Bumps at Comme des Garçons S/S97

A common thread that runs throughout the avant-garde fashion design of the 1990s is a thorough critique of the visual language of the 1980s: a thorough dismissal of the golden era of sculpted bodies and hyper-glossy aspiration. Rei Kawakubo is a designer who unmistakably helped pioneer this renegade aesthetic, a woman whose creations have never accepted the body as a limitation and who tackled the cultural tropes of female body image and its connection to clothing in her Spring/Summer 1997…