“Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between,” the exhibition opening this week at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The exhibition, decisively described as not a retrospective, features 150 garments from Kawakubo’s collections. Kawakubo’s collection was initially met with shock and disdain; critics described it as “ragged chic,” “Hiroshima’s revenge” and “post atomic.”
Here's what went down on the first Monday of May:
