The first time I visited the Comme des Garçons showroom was in March 1996, immediately following the staging of the Body Meets Dress, Dress Meets Body collection. Last week, at the preview for the imminent Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute’s exhibition celebrating Rei Kawakubo’s work – the show opens in May – its curator, Andrew Bolton, revisited an anecdote that he generously described as belonging to fashion folklore written by me and which related to…
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