A CLOAK OF STATIC DRAPE AND THE ECHO OF A MACHINE’S LOVE: COMME DES GARçONS, ARTIFICIAL INTIMACY, AND THE FABRIC OF POST-HUMAN FASHION

In the ever-permuting theatre of fashion, where garments function as silent soliloquies and silhouettes become syntax, no name slices through the traditional lexicon more sharply than Comme des Garçons. The Japanese brand—helmed by Rei Kawakubo, whose artistic gravity bends every known rule of garment structure—doesn’t simply design clothes.