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It also helps that Laakkonen’s minimalist wardrobe feels surprisingly fresh and wearable in today’s style landscape. “I’m impressed by how modern these clothes look today,” she says. These are clothes imbued with personal meaning,…

If this Comme des Garçons Shirt collection looks more straightforward than others in the past, chalk it up to a Lacoste collaboration that set loose a congregation of alligators across the clothes. Why Lacoste? Well, why not? Scaled up or…

Photo: Courtesy of BackgridToday, Kylie Jenner showed off one of her signature curve-skimming ensembles in London. Normally that’s nothing unusual, but this was an unlikely choice for the star. Jenner opted for an ensemble from the Comme…

Welcome to Devoted, a Vogue series in which we explore the reasons why people collect clothes and the stories they hold.Michelle Elie can’t take her Comme des Garçons collection on airplanes. No, the fervent collector of the Japanese brand…

Rei Kawakubo has said that if she could have invented one garment, it would have been the white shirt. “It’s a fundamental part of a man’s wardrobe,” her husband, translator, and company CEO, Adrian Joffe, said on her behalf. “Shirt,…

Tuesday, June 21 is a buffer between the all-digital day in Milan for those who are commuting to the French capital. Woolmark Prize finalist Egonlab and the LVMH Prize long-listed Bluemarble are both live on the schedule today.Wednesday,…

“For me, the dark beauty of the black rose symbolizes courage, resistance, and freedom.” Rei Kawakubo touched a nerve with the few words she sent with the photos and video of her Comme des Garçons show from Tokyo. There was no mention of…

Rei Kawakubo is suffering from wanderlust. It’s almost a two-year stretch since she boarded a plane from Tokyo to Paris—a journey she used to do at least four times annually—to put on her Comme des Garçons Homme Plus and women’s shows. The…