The Full Story: Comme des Garçons by Nick Knight

The fusion of 18th century and punk may seem unlikely, but “I suppose there was punk spirit in every age,” Rei Kawakubo says. “I was thinking that there had to be women in the 18th century who wanted to live strongly. So I designed what I imagined this type of woman would have worn, and called it ‘18th-Century Punk’.” Dig deeper and the 18th century was indeed an era associated with both revolution and change. And that applies to France and Paris in particular. The otherwise Tokyo-based…