Rei Kawakubo: Refusing Fashion - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 097919914X ISBN 13: 9780979199141

Publisher: Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, 2011

Synopsis

One of the most elusive fashion designers in the world, Rei Kawakubo of Japan, is known for remaking the forms of clothes. Her sweaters full of holes, jackets with only one sleeve and dresses that are part dress and part pants are unique, yet always wearable. She says she wants to "design clothes that have never yet existed." Her innovative fashion, unique methods of fabrication and collaborations with artists working in many different fields including the great modern choreographer Merce Cunningham, will be explored in a unique installation of her work at MOCAD. The exhibition will include over 40 key garments, costumes from and film of the Cunningham performance, photographs, runway footage and ephemera. The exhibition ReFUSING FASHION: REI KAWAKUBO aims to present a view of Kawakubo's work as a series of interventions and dis-ruptions in the arena of style and fashion: whether her work is thought of as anti-fashion in the world of fashion, or of ugliness and clumsiness in a system classically devoted to good taste, Kawakubo's work is a constant process of renewal of vocabulary and thinking.

Edition details

• Publisher: Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 097919914X
• ISBN 13: 9780979199141
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 138