Comme des Garçons was founded by Rei Kawakubo 1973 in Tokyo. Starting out with women’s clothes, Kawakubo added a men’s line in 1978. Three years later, she started presenting her fashion lines in Paris each season, opening up a boutique in Paris in 1982.
Comme des Garçons specialises in anti-fashion, austere, sometimes deconstructed garments, which looks very interesting on the catwak, but hardly imagined at the streets…