The 2017 Met Gala Theme will be Comme des Garçons's Rei Kawakubo

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On Friday morning, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced the new theme for its 2017 Costume Institute exhibition and gala: Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons. Opening on May 4, the show will be the first monograph show at the museum to focus on a living designer since its Yves Saint Laurent exhibit in 1983.

Rei Kawakubo is one of the most important and influential designers of the past forty years, said the Costume Institutes curator in charge, Andrew Bolton. By inviting us to rethink fashion as a site of constant creation, recreation, and hybridity, she has defined the aesthetics of our time.

The exhibit will feature about 120 Comme des Garçons womenswear designs by Kawakubo, dating back to the labels first runway collection in 1981, all the way to her most recent shows. The pieces will be arranged by contrasting themes (East/West, male/female, past/present), which touch upon Kawakubos fascination with in-betweenness. The mannequins featuring Kawakubos designs will also be more accessible than ever, as they will be placed at eye-level without any glass or other physical barriers between them and the viewer.

http://www.vogue.com/13495073/met-gala-2017-theme-rei-kawakubo-comme-des-garcons/

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