Comme des Garçons, often abbreviated as CdG, is a Japanese fashion label founded in 1969 by designer Rei Kawakubo. The name means ‘like the boys’ in French and reflects Kawakubo’s vision of creating cross-gender fashion that distances itself from traditional norms.
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Junya Watanabe, a name synonymous with innovation and avant-garde design in the fashion industry, is one of Japan’s most influential fashion designers. Born in Fukushima, Japan in 1961, Watanabe began his career at Comme des Garçons in 1984 after graduating from the prestigious Bunka Fashion College in Tokyo. Under the patronage of the legendary Rei Kawakubo, he developed his own unmistakable style and founded his own label under the Comme des Garçons brand in 1992.
The enormous art installations alone are worth a visit: Comme des Garçons designer Rei Kawakubo had the original concept of “beautiful chaos” in mind when she opened her first Dover Street Market store in London, and it is now expressed alongside sculptures, photographs and other works of contemporary art at the only Japanese outlet of the legendary high fashion department store …
What would you do if in order to have everything you wanted in your shop, you would actually need an entire department store? Open more than one shop, of course, and that’s exactly what the people behind La Comercial have done …
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Berlin has long been seen as Germany’s creative centre and has established an international reputation as a fashion capital. THE Stylemate knows where to find the city’s hippest concept stores …