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Comme des Garçons-Art of the In-Between

A few months ago during one of our staff trips to New York City, we divided exhibits to evaluate based on the end of the exhibition. Those on my team headed to The Met to review the work of Japanese fashion designer Rei Kawakubo, who is the founder of Comme des Garçons, which is French for “like boys”, a company based in Tokyo and on the illustrious Place Vendôme. After reading a myriad of articles from the NY Times, The New York Review, USA Today, The New Yorker and Vogue, we had to examine the items of clothing that we may not need, but want to have in our closets for those moments to truly stand out. Kawakubo is the first living designer to have a solo show at The Met’s Costume Institute since 1983.

The sculptural aura of the haute-punk items are oversized, crinkled and intriguing to see, and it definitely takes a unique personality to carry-off wearing such a collection.

Here are a few articles collected during our research on the designer and exhibition.

  1. 6 Life Lessons from Rei Kawakubo  {{Vogue}
  2. Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between {New Yorker}
  3. Rei Kawakubo, the Nearly Silent Oracle of Fashion {NY Times}

Stay uniquely stylish,
K

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Rodin

Our team left Marrakech for Paris, which is the ultimate way to travel from one exotic metropolis to another. Stylish Heath reporters are in the City of Light checking out Le Musée de Rodin located at the Hôtel Biron on the rue de Varenne, while several of us went to New York City to explore the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Fifth to review the Rodin exhibit before it left yesterday.

{The top photo from Le Musée de Rodin garden is of “Le Penseur” [The Thinker] 1902, bronze-and the next image is “Adam”– a bronze cast in 1910 from The Met}

Our plan is to divide between two continents, while dealing with the assigned topic, and examining the extraordinary range of work from Auguste Rodin, the only sculptor of modern age to be on par with Michelangelo.

A consummate draughtsman and sculptor, Rodin’s most famous works were his Age of Bronze, The Thinker, The Kiss, and Monument to Balzac.

The Age of Bronze is where Rodin began his career, his first succès de scandale. The statue though unconventional in its lack of a specific subject, reflected in the number of different titles Rodin would give, and the immediacy of the strained but graceful body of the ‘common man’ aroused suspicion and disapproval. Official protest caused accusations that Rodin used life casts, but all had been proved wrong not so much by the photographs of the model, but for the artist reputation as an excellent modeler.

Stay stylish,
K