Rei Kawakubo Profiles
The life behind the work — Comme des Garçons and Dover Street Market.
Rei Kawakubo is a Japanese fashion designer based in Tokyo and Paris. She is the founder of Comme des Garçons and Dover Street Market. This profiles page is the anchor of her record in this guide: it sets out the two foundings the rest of the series documents — the house her collections are presented under, and the retail venture that carries her way of presenting fashion into shops. Of all the pages in this series, this is the one the others depend on.
The biography searches in the references gather the wider career coverage, and the house's official website is linked there as well. The collections, runway and news pages in this series file the fashion work the career produced.
Illustrative image created for this guide — an artistic impression, not this designer's own garments.
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Comme des Garçons and Dover Street Market
The two foundings divide her work into its two halves. Comme des Garçons is the house: the collections filed across this series — season by season on the collections page, by register on the fall and spring pages, as events on the fashion week and runway pages — are presented under its name. Dover Street Market is the retail venture: a founder who also founds the shop controls not only what is designed but how it is shown and sold, and that completeness of control is the through-line of her career.
Based in Tokyo and Paris, she works between the city the house comes from and the city whose calendar the collections are shown on. The fashion week page in this series covers that Paris calendar; the runway page follows the presentations themselves.
The Record in This Guide
Her record here is filed so each kind of material has its own page. The collections page holds the shared view of the collections season by season. The fall fashions page takes the autumn strand at full weight, and the spring fashions page takes the same signature at its lightest. The news page is the running desk for coverage of the designer and the house.
For the life and career in full biographical depth, the reference searches on this page run current profile coverage, kept up to date by the search engines themselves. Read with the collections page, this profile completes its arc — the record organized, the foundings named, and the strands each filed where a reader looking for them will find them.
Common Questions
Who is Rei Kawakubo?
Rei Kawakubo is a Japanese fashion designer based in Tokyo and Paris. She is the founder of Comme des Garçons and Dover Street Market.
What did Rei Kawakubo found?
She founded Comme des Garçons, the house her collections are presented under, and Dover Street Market, the retail venture named alongside it in her record.
Where is Rei Kawakubo based?
She is based in Tokyo and Paris — the two cities her record names, and the Paris calendar is where her fashion week and runway pages in this series are set.