Le site utilise des cookies pour le fonctionnement des boutons de partage sur les réseaux sociaux et la mesure d'audience des vidéos et des pages de ce site. En poursuivant votre navigation sur ce site, vous acceptez leur utilisation. En savoir plus et gérer ses paramètres ici. > Fermer

  • Jump to Navigation
  • Jump to Content
  • Jump to Footer
Palais Galliera
en
  • en
  • fr

Main menu

  • Palais Galliera
  • Collections
  • Exhibitions and Publications
  • Workshops
  • Professionals and researchers
  • Prepare your visit
  • Collections
    • 18th-Century Dress Department
    • 19th-Century Costumes Department
    • Fashion of the first half of the 20th-Century
    • Haute Couture
    • Contemporary Department
    • Undergarments Department
    • Accessories Department
    • Prints and Drawings Department
    • Photography Collection
  • Vogue Paris Foundation
  • Donations

ABOUT OUR COLLECTIONS

Dear visitors, 

After the success of "A History of Fashion", our second collections tour will open to the public in June 2023.

This next collections tour will be an opportunity for you to discover a new history of fashion, from the 18th century to the present day, through our exceptional collections presented in a new theme dedicated to the body in motion.

The link between fashion and sport will be the subject of the second display of this new collections tour, echoing the Olympic Games that will be held in Paris in 2024.

You are here

  • Home »
  • Collections »
  • Collections »
  • Contemporary Department »
  • Evening dress, Comme des Garçons

Evening dress, Comme des Garçons

  • Comme des Garçons

  • Autumn/Winter 1991-1992
  • Dress: black silk on a hoop. Train: muslin of hand-painted black silk.
  • GAL1993.64.1
  • Purchased by the City of Paris
  • Palais Galliera, musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris

Comme des Garçons founder and designer Rei Kawakubo arrived in Paris in 1981, a little over ten years after the first wave of Japanese creators like Tokio Kumagai, Issey Miyake and Kenzo Takada. She had begun showing her collections in Tokyo in 1973. Once in Paris she caught the eye of the media with her 1983 Spring/summer collection and its intimations of the incomplete and the unfinished. Ever since she has been exploring our relationship with clothes via the Asian and Western traditions, also drawing on the history of the silhouette in Occidental fashion, with its additions and distortions. This is the work of an auteur, in which Rei Kawakubo catalogues her obsessions and puts questions - but without imposing any answers. Each of her collections is a keenly anticipated event.

This evening dress reconciles East and West. Its structure reminds us of Balenciaga's basculée dresses, shorter in front than at the back, while the distinctive shape of the padded skirt is ensured by a hoop. Here, too, we are reminded of those heavy ceremonial kimonos, an impression reinforced by the stylised Mt Fuji landscape painted with broad brushstrokes on the black silk muslin of the train. Here two cultures meet and the result is an evening dress that marries the sumptuous and the unconventional as Rei Kawakubo offers a new concept of luxury.  

Notice's author : Laurent Cotta

Evening dress, Comme des Garçons © Eric Emo / Galliera / Roger-Viollet
  • Evening dress, Comme des Garçons © Eric Emo / Galliera / Roger-Viollet
  • Evening dress, Comme des Garçons © Eric Emo / Galliera / Roger-Viollet
  • Evening dress, Comme des Garçons © Eric Emo / Galliera / Roger-Viollet
Enlarge image
  • « Previous piece
  • Return to the collection
  • Next piece »

Discover the 14
city of Paris’ museums

  • Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris
  • Balzac’s house
  • Bourdelle museum
  • Carnavalet museum -
    History of Paris
  • The catacombs
  • Cernuschi museum,
    Museum of asian art
  • Cognacq-Jay museum,
    museum of 18th century art
  • Archaeological crypt
    of the Île de la Cité
  • Palais Galliera, museum of fashion
  • General Leclerc museum,
    Jean Moulin museum
  • Petit Palais,
    museum of fine arts
  • Museum of romantics
  • Victor Hugo’s houses
  • Zadkine museum

Explore the web
of Paris Musées !

Discover the collections of all
the city of Paris’ museums.

Discover

Access the Paris Musées website

Palais Galliera

10 avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie,

Paris 16e, 75116 Paris

01 56 52 86 00

Suivez-nous :

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
Paris Musées
  • Palais Galliera
    • The palace
    • A city of Paris’ Museum
    • Restoration laboratory
    • News and highlights
    • Donate to the Palais Galliera
  • Collections
    • Collections
  • Exhibitions and publications
    • On now
    • Coming soon
    • Archives
    • Publications
  • Workshops
    • Calendar of worshops
  • Professionals and researchers
    • Library and documentation
    • Private events, shooting
© Palais Galliera, 2022. Tous droits réservés.
  • Accessibility
  • Terms of use
  • Credits
  • Contact
  • Display cookies management