COMME des GARÇONS

From the 18th century robe volante to Comme des Garçons: this museum is an open course for history of fashion

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  One after its reopening in 2020, the Palais Galliera, musée de la Mode de la ville de Paris, will celebrate inaugurate during the autumn of 2021 in its new galleries ‘A History of Fashion. Collecting & exhibiting at the Palais Galliera’ which traces the history of the Palais Galliera and its fashion collections. Visitors … Read more

Brighton exhibition showcases 40 years of hats by Stephen Jones

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Royal Pavilion exhibition has at its centre a display of hats created for 26 famous faces

A rare interview with Comme des Garçons designer Rei Kawakubo

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High-concept, high-fashion and radical, designer Kawakubo is considered the queen of fashion. Jess Cartner-Morley meets the designer at her headquarters in Paris

  • Read more from the autumn/winter 2018 edition of The Fashion, our biannual fashion supplement

Pink: the History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Colour at FIT

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  The Museum at FIT (the Fashion Institute of Technology) in New York, regarded as one of the most important museums in the world, hosts Pink: the History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Colour, an exhibition exploring the changeable meaning of the colour pink over the last three centuries.   In its two sections (one … Read more

Wake up and smell the concrete: the rise of alt perfumes

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From Comme des Garçons to Christopher Shannon, 2017’s scents are inspired by anything from building materials to milk teeth. Do their bouquets live up to the hype?

Comme des Garçons’ spring collection – designed for a warehouse rave

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At the first show since the label’s work was honoured at New York’s Met Gala, there was slicked-down hair, sequinned jackets, neon faux fur – and even the occasional smile. But beware the unsettling final note