{"id":18236,"date":"2017-05-01T13:12:35","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T13:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/?p=18236"},"modified":"2017-05-01T13:12:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T13:12:35","slug":"the-ultimate-showdown-comme-des-garcons-vs-kusama-koons-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/the-ultimate-showdown-comme-des-garcons-vs-kusama-koons-more\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ultimate Showdown: Comme des Gar\u00e7ons vs. Kusama, Koons & More"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who’s excited that it’s finally\u00a0the first Monday in May? In just a few hours, everyone who’s anyone will be strutting up the red-carpeted stairs of the Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a> for the event that’s been called the Super Bowl of fashion. And if the Met Gala is the Super Bowl,\u00a0Rei Kawakubo is Tom Brady, (who happens to be a host this year.) The 74-year-old Founder and Creative Director for the avant-garde label Comme des Gar\u00e7ons<\/a> is being honored this year both at the event itself and at the Costume Institute’s Spring 2017 exhibit, which will showcase\u00a0her visionary designs.<\/p>\n

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Kawakubo’s creations\u00a0are works of art in and of themselves,\u00a0so let’s\u00a0see how they measure up to works by\u00a0some of the\u00a0art world’s best-known big shots.<\/p>\n

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Images\/\/ Vogue, Guggenheim<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Comme des Gar\u00e7ons Fall\u00a02017 Ready-to-Wear; Georges Braque, Piano and Mandola<\/em>, 1909-10<\/p>\n

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Images\/\/ Vogue, WikiArt<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Comme des Gar\u00e7ons Fall 2016\u00a0Ready-to-Wear; Georgie O’Keefe, Flower of Life II<\/em>, 1925<\/p>\n

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Images\/\/ Vogue, Ruth Asawa<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Comme des Gar\u00e7ons Fall 2016\u00a0Ready-to-Wear; Ruth Asawa, Untitled<\/em>, 1955<\/p>\n

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Images\/\/ Vogue, MoMA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Comme des Gar\u00e7ons Fall 2017\u00a0Ready-to-Wear; Yayoi Kusama, Accumulation No. 1<\/em>, 1962<\/p>\n

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Images\/\/ Vogue, Pace Gallery<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Comme des Gar\u00e7ons Spring 2014\u00a0Ready-to-Wear; Louise Nevelson,\u00a0Untitled<\/em>, c. late 1970s<\/p>\n

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Images\/\/ Vogue, Artsy<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Comme des Gar\u00e7ons Fall 2017\u00a0Ready-to-Wear; Jeff Koons, Rabbit, 1986<\/em><\/p>\n

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Images\/\/ Vogue, Artsy<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Comme des Gar\u00e7ons Fall 2015 Ready-to-Wear; Sol LeWitt,\u00a0Black Bands in Two Directions<\/em>, 1991<\/p>\n

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Images\/\/ Vogue, Sotheby’s<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Comme des Gar\u00e7ons Spring 2016 Ready-to-Wear; Frank Stella,\u00a0QUEEN MAB (D-21, 1X)<\/em>, 1992<\/p>\n

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Images\/\/ Vogue, Tate Modern<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Comme des Gar\u00e7ons Spring 2015 Ready-to-Wear; Cy Twombly, Untitled (Bacchus)<\/em>, 2008<\/p>\n

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Images\/\/ Vogue, 303 Gallery<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Comme des Gar\u00e7ons Spring 2014 Ready-to-Wear; Sue Williams,\u00a0War of the Testicles<\/em>, 2010<\/p>\n

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Featured image\/\/ Vogue, Artsy (Florine Stettheimer, Spring Sale at Bendel’s, 1921)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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