MIGHTY Montage
Above, Kawakubo’s complex Guest Editor offering included: anarchic paintings by Argentine art collective Mondongo, reworked by Comme des Garçons (01; 07; 10; 11), as well as untouched works by the collective (04); an artwork created by Risa Fukui using a Japanese paper-cutting technique (02); a portrait of the Russian-born American sculptor Louise Nevelson, which featured on the cover of Comme des Garçons’
Six magazine in 1991 (03); a Comme des Garçons direct mailer from A/W 1990/91, by American artist John L Murphy (05); a photograph by Yoshiko Seino, who has worked with Comme des Garçons since 1998 (06); a Dalí-esque drawing by Japanese animator Tabaimo (08); and a series of Comme des Garçons promotional postcards (09; 12)
Top left, portrait by Hiroshi Tanabi