1. Rei Kawakubo was born on 11 October 1942 and is a Japanese fashion designer based in Tokyo and Paris.
17 Facts About Rei Kawakubo
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Rei Kawakubo is the founder of Comme des Garcons and Dover Street Market.
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Rei Kawakubo is greatly involved in graphic design, advertising, and shop interiors believing that all these things are a part of one vision and are inextricably linked.
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In 1993, Rei Kawakubo launched the Comme des Garcons Parfums line with Adrian Joffe.
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In 1996 Rei Kawakubo was guest editor of the high art publication Visionaire.
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Rei Kawakubo is known to be quite reclusive and media shy, preferring her innovative creations to speak for themselves.
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Since 2003, Rei Kawakubo has been referenced and cited by other major designers for her originality and contribution to fashion and design marked by a nationally broadcast program of interviews concerning her work by NHK.
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Two other early supporters of Rei Kawakubo were Jean-Paul Gaultier and Donna Karan.
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Rei Kawakubo's designs have inspired many other designers like the Belgian Martin Margiela and Ann Demeulemeester, as well as Austrian designer Helmut Lang.
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Rei Kawakubo is known for establishing Dover Street Market, whose design ethos can be described as a Comme Des Garcons version of a department store.
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Vogue magazine and the Metropolitan Museum in New York have announced that an exhibition dedicated to Rei Kawakubo was scheduled for its 2017 season between 4 May 2017 and 4 September 2017.
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The exhibition shows about 150 pieces of Rei Kawakubo's women's wear for Comme des Garcons, from the early 1980s to the present day.
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Rei Kawakubo is the second living designer to be honored for an exhibition at the Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Rei Kawakubo proposes new ideas of beauty by creating organic forms and protrusions in her garments, creating outfits that discard standard sizes.
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Joffe stated that Rei Kawakubo might remain open to the possibility of allowing the current exhibition at the Met to be moved to other locations and museums around the world after it ends its venue in New York on 4 September 2017, though a newly designed exhibition on other themes or concepts was strongly discounted.
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Between the 1980s and 1990s, Rei Kawakubo was in a relationship with fellow Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto, but the relationship ended.
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Rei Kawakubo later went on to marry Adrian Joffe, the current CEO of Comme des Garcons and Dover Street Market.