AW18 Comme Des Garcons Frill Distressed Shirt Raf Simons applying radical silhouettes to coats

applying radical silhouettes to coats and jackets while weaving in freestyle elements drawn from hardcore punk

’ the line is built upon reconstruction

continuously reworking the familiar through a myriad of old and new CDG tropes

While embracing the slower rhythm of fashion

AW18 Comme Des Garcons Frill Distressed Shirt Raf Simons applying radical silhouettes to coatsRei Kawakubo traded Comme des Garons usual starkness for a riot of tulle, lace, glitter wigs, platform Nike Cortez, and overblown flowers for Autumn Winter 2018. Her starting point was Susan Sontags 1964 Notes on Camp, a fifty eight point meditation on a concept that celebrates artifice, exaggeration, and kitsch. In Camp, fashion is seen not simply as clothing but as a deliberate performance where style and behavior are exaggerated and stylized to