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Met exhibits works of Japanese fashion designer Rei Kawakubo
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Elle Fanning attends the "Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between" Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 1, 2017 in New York City. (GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP/Neilson Barnard)
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n exhibition opened to the press at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday featuring the works of renowned Japanese fashion designer Rei Kawakubo, head of the Comme des Garcons brand.
The exhibit, which opens to the public on Thursday and will run through Sept. 4, is the first monographic show at the New York museum's Costume Institute to focus on a living designer since its Yves Saint Laurent exhibit in 1983.
"Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art of the In-Between" includes about 150 Comme des Garcons women's clothing designs by Kawakubo, dating from the label's first Paris runway collection in 1981 to her most recent collection.
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"What I've only ever been interested in are clothes that one has never seen before, that are completely new, and how in what way they can be expressed," Kawakubo said in the notes to the exhibit. "Is that called fashion? I don't know the answer."
The preview was attended by Kawakubo and other people, including former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy who said the beauty of Kawakubo's works can win people's hearts regardless of age or gender. Kawakubo did not make any remarks.
The 74-year-old Kawakubo, an avant-garde designer who has contributed to blurring the line between art and fashion, founded Comme des Garcons in Tokyo in 1969. She also launched the upscale global retail chain Dover Street Market in 2004.
