News, comment and features on Comme des Garçons from the Guardian
June 2024
Swan songs, feathered fascinators and gymnastic bouquets: highlights from Paris men’s fashion week spring/summer 2025 – in pictures
The mood on the catwalk was buoyant in the French capital as Olympic fever swept the city and designers celebrated unity and optimism
December 2023
The Guardian view on Rishi Sunak: the prime minister is fighting for his political life
Editorial: The Tory splits over lockdown were shallower and less treacherous than on immigration. But ominously they run along similar lines
August 2021
The measure
This week’s fashion trends: from backward caps to extreme sunglasses
What’s hot and what’s not in fashion this week
January 2020
Are rows over cultural appropriation a dastardly PR ploy?
Arwa Mahdawi
Comme des Garçons in row over ‘white models in cornrow wigs’
August 2019
Why Bayeux chic will be the next big fashion trend
Designers are delving into history to create trousers, coats, knits, bags and even hoodies with a tapestry twist
September 2018
The Fashion autumn/winter 2018
A rare interview with Comme des Garçons designer Rei Kawakubo
High-concept, high-fashion and radical, designer Kawakubo is considered the queen of fashion. Jess Cartner-Morley meets the designer at her headquarters in Paris
June 2018
Paris men's fashion week: 10 show highlights - in pictures
From a rainbow runway at Louis Vuitton, smoke clouds at Rick Owens and a 10ft flower centre piece at Dior, here are the menswear show highlights for spring/summer 2019
April 2018
Grindr was a safe space for gay men. Its HIV status leak betrayed us
Brian Moylan
Sharing sensitive data on users’ HIV status undoes all the app’s good work, says writer Brian Moylan
March 2018
Rising camp: how an arch sensibility got political
Ice skaters in S&M gear, models in panto petticoats, Ricky Martin in tighty whities ... we’re in the grip of a camp explosion – and now it has a radical bite
August 2017
Distressed fashion: making sense of pre-ripped clothes
The distressed look has come a long way since ripped jeans. Nowadays your clothes need to be shot, nibbled or covered in fake mud to turn heads. From Gigi Hadid to Ashley Graham, everyone’s at it. But why does it matter now?
June 2017
Paris menswear: 10 key collections from the spring/summer shows – in pictures
Comme des Garçons' spring collection – designed for a warehouse rave
May 2017
A visual history of Rei Kawakubo for Comme des Garçons – in pictures
The Japanese designer, whose daring aesthetic was honoured at the Met Gala last month, is being celebrated in a new book
Met Gala 2017: who nailed the trickiest dress code ever?
What happened when the world’s most glamorous guest list met fashion’s most avant garde theme? Decoding Comme des Garçons/Rei Kawakubo on the red carpet
Met museum honours Comme des Garçons founder Rei Kawakubo
Art of the In-Between exhibition promises to be as avant-garde as the collections that have cemented the designer’s reputation
October 2016
The Met Ball for 2017? Lumps, bumps and black thanks to Rei Kawakubo
The designer – fashion’s undisputed queen of conceptualism – will be the subject of the Costume Institute’s exhibition next year
June 2016
Women's liberation: 20th-century fashion breaks free – in pictures
Cristobál Balenciaga, Issey Miyake, Rei Kawakubo – a new book, Fashion Game Changers, charts the radical new silhouettes available to women during the 20th century
