The First Monday in May of 2017 will forever be remembered as “a moment” in my journalistic career. I was requested to preview the 2017 Costume Institute exhibition “Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The magnitude of creativity that filled that room superseded all of my expectations. Rei Kawakubo’s mind is as imaginative as a great artist more so than a designer. I guess some would categorize them as the same. In my opinion; there are designers and then there are innovators. Kawakubo simply creates works of art and this exhibit is her masterpiece. Xx, Sas
“If I do something I think is new, it will be misunderstood, but if people like it, I will be disappointed because I haven’t pushed them enough. The more people hate it, maybe the newer it is. Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change. The place I am always looking for-because in order to keep the business I need to make a little compromise between my values and customers’ values-is the place where I make something that could almost-but not quite-be understood by everyone.” – Rei Kawakubo
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