How Comme Des Garcons Challenges Norms In a world obsessed with polish and presentation, Comme des Garçons emerged like a glitch in the matrix. Born in Tokyo in 1969, it was never meant to play by the rules. Rei Kawakubo, its elusive founder, didn’t enter the fashion world to beautify it—she came to disrupt it. From her very first collection, she twisted expectations like threads on a loom.
By the time the brand...