Comparison Of Rei Kawakubo And Cindy Sherman

One of them being one of the most influential fashion designers known for her unique, out of the box style, one being a key figure in socially critical photography, it is not surprising that Rei Kawakubo and Cindy Sherman decided to collaborate for the 1993/1994 campaign for Comme Des Garcons. With this campaign Cindy Sherman breaked the rule of typical fashion photo shoot where she is no longer just posing to show off the garment but to also adding her own interpretation, and telling a story, a issue of women in culture. Yet these out of ordinary and even confound photographs, even seen separated from fashion photographs, are highly connected to Kawakubo’s approach of combining the values of contemporary art and business of fashion design, rethink the history of clothing design. It is also exciting to see two women taking different approach of gender difference and feminism and combining them together to create this “anti- fashion” photoshoot. …show more content…
She is known for her deconstruction asymmetry. She never officially studied fashion design but her unique, out of the box style brought people’s attention. She with other designers changed the meaning of garments, making them seen not only as pieces to embrace the body, but to form the body, where clothes come before body… Rei Kawakubo established her label in 1969 and formally established her Comme des Garçons company in Minami-Aoyama, Tokyo in 1973. She entered the world of international Parisian fashion in 1980 when she opened her boutique in Paris and showed her first collection, alongside Yohji Yamamoto, in