comme des garcons

Fashion brand under fire for cultural appropriation with cornrow wigs

People are wigging out over these wigs. On Friday, Japanese fashion brand Commes des Garçons held a Fall 2020 menswear presentation in Paris — but it wasn't the looks that...

Comme de Garçons and Gucci troll us with this brown paper bag

Fanny packs, be gone! Hypebeasts will be brown-bagging it from now on. Comme des Garçons, the avant-garde Japanese label, has teamed up with Gucci to produce a high-fashion riff on...

Inside Dover Street Market's wild, ’grammable new makeover

One day you’re in and the next you’re out — or so a conundrum of the fashion industry goes. It’s a punishing world for many, but revered Comme des Garçons...

Meet the eccentric designer who is the Met Gala's new muse

On Monday evening, the world’s most glamorous celebrities, supermodels and fashionistas will storm the Metropolitan Museum of Art in their fanciest borrowed couture to fete a designer some have never...

Tom, Gisele and the Met Gala are a terrible combination

This year, the Metropolitan Museum’s big fashion exhibition will take a look at the work of Rei Kawakubo, the cerebral, mercurial designer behind the cult label Comme des Garçons. So,...

This reclusive designer is the Met Gala's next muse

The Met Gala is already getting in gear for next year’s star-studded ball. The just-announced theme: Comme des Garçons — and its head, Rei Kawakubo. According to Vogue, the companion...

The 8 craziest, most creative shows at Paris Fashion Week

Forget practical — fashion should be conceptual or, at the very least, fun. That was the message at Paris fashion week, which concluded Wednesday and where designers got über-creative with...

The 10 coolest and craziest spring menswear collections

Most of the time and for the majority of people — even fashion people — menswear is suiting-centric and straight-laced. In another word: boring. But twice per year, the men’s...

Rihanna slays scene at Paris Fashion Week

Voilà, c’est Rih! Rihanna may have celebrated her 26th birthday in Aspen last week, offering spectators and fans a high-fashion snow bunny photoshoot — an Instagram exclusive — but this...