Rei Kawakubo

Rei Kawakubo (川久保 玲, Kawakubo Rei) was born on 11 October 1942 in Tokyo, and is a Japanese fashion designer based in Tokyo and Paris. She is the founder of Comme des Garçons and Dover Street Market. In recognition of the notable design contributions of Kawakubo an exhibition of her designs is planned in 2017 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. 2Education Although not formally trained as a fashion designer, Kawakubo did study fine arts and literature at Keio University. After graduation, Kawakubo worked in the advertising department at the textile company, Ashai Kasei and she went on to work as a freelance stylist in 1967.[1] Two years later, she began to design and make her own clothes under the label Comme des Garçons, before incorporating the label in 1973. 2Career: 1973-2003 In 1973, she established her own company, Comme des Garçons Co. Ltd in Tokyo and opened up her first boutique there in 1975. Starting out with women's clothes, Kawakubo added a men's line in 1978. Three years later, she started presenting her fashion lines in Paris each season, opening up a boutique in Paris in 1982. Comme des Garçons specialises in anti-fashion, austere, sometimes deconstructed garment