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...sales of $12 million, up from $5 million last year), did not have to look so far afield for his inspiration. His sundried colors, the monastic grace of his tailoring, are a direct reflection of the Japanese design innovation of the past decade, especially the work of the formidable Rei Kawakubo. Gigli has simplified and styled down many of Kawakubo's more cerebral inventions for her Comme des Garcons line, added a dash of Milanese insouciance and found himself among the hottest designers in the marketplace since his first show in March 1982. Gigli, who dislikes being photographed, firmly resists...
...didn't get to town a few weeks earlier. From April 9 through 17, Tokyo played host to its second official season of fashion shows, 33 in all, featuring standout work not only by Miyake and the other two members of the Tokyo triumvirate (Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garons) but by a brace of younger, less familiar talent. Although the so-called Japanese look has got roughed up--even as it has been ripped off--by the fashion establishment, and much of the fashion press tries to write it off and wipe it out, the Tokyo...
...funeral oration as Neves was buried on Wednesday in his hometown of Sao Joao del Rei, 140 miles north of Rio de Janeiro, President Sarney said, "His commitments will be our commitments. His dream will be our dream." The new leader is expected to benefit immediately from the public demand that Neves' legacy be fulfilled. Said Federal Deputy Del Bosco Amaral, a member of Neves' Brazilian Democratic Movement Party: "In a strange way, one of Tancredo's greatest achievements only took place after he died. His death left Brazil with only one path: democracy...
Short photo essays concentrate on seven designers, among them Miyake, the ebulliently inventive Yohji Yamamoto, and Rei Kawakubo, whose designs demonstrate what Koren calls "irony, image juxtaposition and whimsy . . . the purest, most uncompromising and strongest avant-garde vision." The book also includes chapters of careful observation on history and tradition, fabric design, graphic display and body structure (illustrated with vintage photos of women who dive for fish outside a village east of Tokyo). "I make style out of life," Miyake says, "not style out of style." The roots of that life are beautifully revealed in a series of candid photos...
...fabric and works with a bolt of cloth like a sculptor with clay, not molding it into a presketched design but draping the whole length over a body, drawing the shape of the final garment from the fabric itself as it works in easy collaboration with the body. Rei Kawakubo, the most austere and cerebral of these new designers, speaks intensely about "getting down to the essence of shapelessness, formlessness and colorlessness." At first glance, her men's and women's clothes for Comme des Garçons (the name means "like the boys" and was chosen...