Does Rei Kawakubo really start from zero? What 30 years of CdGHP archives reveal.

Supposedly Rei Kawakubo isn't inspired by anything and starts every single collection from zero. However the Comme des Garçons Homme Plus archives tells a different story of design. A story on what it means to create the new. Translated interview and other resources on my Substack: 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 00:00 Did Orlando start from zero? 02:26 90s Homme Plus and British Menswear 04:25 03SS Daytime Evening 06:50 11-12AW Decadence/Neither Man Nor Woman 07:56 13AW Tree of Youth 11:07 14SS Hatching 11:57 16SS Broken Tailoring 13:34 20SS Orlando 16:19 Zero Find me elsewhere at: https://bsky.app/profile/metonymchann... https://metonymchannel.substack.com/ 𝗔𝘁𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 Music provided by Chillhop Music chillhop.ffm.to/creatorcred Polygoon-Profilti (producent) / Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid (beheerder), CC BY-SA 3.0 NL, via Wikimedia Commons By firestomach, CC BY,    • (1080p)1992年の東京の日常風景   By Images du chineur, CC BY,    • La Défense années 70   Efficiency day for tailors by Polygoon-Profilti (producer) - Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision, Netherlands - CC BY-SA. Runway footage from    / @arknights-norry   By Photo: Myrabella / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... By Jean-Marie Hullot - http://www.fotopedia.com/items/jmhull..., CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... By FruitMonkey - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... By Lafayette photography studio - Victoria and Albert Museum, Lafayette archive, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...