Natsai Audrey Chieza and Pat McGrath win London Design Medals
The London Design Festival has announced designers Natsai Audrey Chieza, Pat McGrath, Harry Blakiston Houston and Rei Kawakubo as the winners of this year's London Design Medals. More
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Rei Kawakubo designs costumes for Vienna State Opera
Comme des Garcons designer Rei Kawakubo has created the costumes for a Vienna State Opera production of Virginia Woolf's Orlando. More
Rei Kawakubo creates Parisian beauty store Dover Street Parfums Market
High-end fashion department store Dover Street Market has opened a beauty-focused branch at the heart of Paris, where products are displayed inside towering textured columns. More
Comme des Garçons is "nothing about clothes" says Rei Kawakubo
Rei Kawakubo is one of the world's best known fashion designers, but never sketches. In this interview, she discusses her unusual design process, how she set up Comme des Garçons and why she won't be pigeonholed. More
Dover Street Market's sixth fashion destination opens in LA
Fashion concept store Dover Street Market has opened in a warehouse building with hardly any windows in Los Angeles, creating an industrial backdrop for high-end clothing and installations. More
Rei Kawakubo's Comme des Garçons furniture to be exhibited in Paris
Chairs, tables and stools designed by Comme des Garçons founder Rei Kawakubo for the brand's stores are going on show at Galerie A1043 in Paris. More
Dover Street Market set to open in Singapore
Japanese fashion brand Comme des Garçons is opening the fourth branch of its Dover Street Market store in an old Singaporean army barrack. More
"Rei Kawakubo is an architect of clothes"
The Met's Comme des Garçons exhibition demonstrates how forward-thinking designers like Rei Kawakubo are using new digital crafts to manipulate both the body and architectural space, says Aaron Betsky in his latest Opinion column. More
Comme des Garçons celebrates concrete with latest perfume
Concrete is the muse for a new fragrance by Japanese fashion house Comme des Garçons, which comes in a bottle made from the building material. More
Comme des Garçons fashion exhibition opens at The Met in New York
The sculptural clothes of enigmatic Japanese designer Rei Kawakubo are the subject of this year's spring exhibition organised by the Costume Institute at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. More
Comme des Garçons creates bulbous, armless figures in The Future of Silhouette
Models were disguised within oversized forms made from layers of wadding at this season's Comme des Garçons Autumn Winter 2017 show during Paris Fashion Week. More
Dover Street Market New York refreshes displays using bold prints and raw materials
The New York multi-brand fashion store run by Japanese label Comme des Garçons has received a makeover, incorporating new installations that include a sliced antique cabinet. More
Veilige Veste by KAW
Victims of human trafficking can find refuge behind the faceted walls of this sheltered housing block in the Netherlands by Dutch firm KAW (+ slideshow). More
Competition: five copies of Wonderwall Masamichi Katayama Projects No 2 to be won
Dezeen and Gestalten have teamed up to give readers the chance to win five copies of the new book about Japanese interior designer Masamichi Katayama of Wonderwall. More