Ceremony of Separation
Ceremony of Separation
Autumn / Winter 2015 - 2016
Coat of black polyester lace and net with attached children's dresses and bonnets of black nylon net, black cotton lawn, and black silk satin ribbon, and bow of cotton velveteen.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute spring 2017 exhibition, Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between, on view from May 4 through September 4, examines Kawakubo’s fascination with interstitiality, or the space between boundaries. In Kawakubo’s work, this in-between space is revealed as an aesthetic sensibility, establishing an unsettling zone of oscillating visual ambiguity that challenges conventional notions of beauty, good taste, and fashionability. A thematic exhibition, rather than a traditional retrospective, this is The Costume Institute’s first monographic show on a living designer since the Yves Saint Laurent exhibition in 1983.
--- Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ceremony of Separation
Ceremony of Separation
Autumn / Winter 2015 - 2016
Coat of black polyester lace and net with attached children's dresses and bonnets of black nylon net, black cotton lawn, and black silk satin ribbon, and bow of cotton velveteen.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute spring 2017 exhibition, Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between, on view from May 4 through September 4, examines Kawakubo’s fascination with interstitiality, or the space between boundaries. In Kawakubo’s work, this in-between space is revealed as an aesthetic sensibility, establishing an unsettling zone of oscillating visual ambiguity that challenges conventional notions of beauty, good taste, and fashionability. A thematic exhibition, rather than a traditional retrospective, this is The Costume Institute’s first monographic show on a living designer since the Yves Saint Laurent exhibition in 1983.
--- Metropolitan Museum of Art