“Rei doesn’t compromise, nor should she,” said Alexander McQueen on the subject of Comme des Garçons’ Rei Kawakubo, the iconoclastic Japanese designer who continues to make her trade with baffling, brilliant clothing. “No one should compromise. Compromise makes people dull.”
If the two designers grew up continents apart – she in Tokyo, Japan, the daughter of a university lecturer; he in Stratford, London, the son of a taxi driver – their affinity became apparent in…
When Alexander McQueen Turned Model for Comme des Garçons
By Jack Moss
June 22, 2018 at 08:13AM
via AnOther http://www.anothermag.com/fashion-beauty/10954/when-alexander-mcqueen-turned-model-for-comme-des-garcons?utm_source=Link&utm_medium=Link&utm_campaign=RSSFeed&utm_term=when-alexander-mcqueen-turned-model-for-comme-des-garcons