Rei Kawakubo Comes Out of Hiding for Met Exhibition Press Conference

PARIS – Rei Kawakubo made a rare public appearance here Monday to attend a press conference about the upcoming exhibition of her designs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. The institution’s first monographic show of a living designer since the Yves Saint Laurent exhibition in 1983, “Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between” is set to run from May 4 to Sept. 4. Adrian Joffe, chief executive officer of Comme des Garçons and Kawakubo’s husband, leaned over to whisper into her ear as she listened intently to a short presentation by Carrie Rebora Barratt, deputy director of the Metropolitan Museum, and Andrew Bolton, curator in charge of The Costume Institute. “Rei has blurred the art-fashion divide with creations that often look like sculptures, challenging us to think anew about fashion’s place in contemporary culture,” said Barratt. “Our thematic show will examine the way in which Rei’s work pushes the boundaries of dress design, challenges traditional notions of beauty, and creates a new aesthetic vocabulary.” Describing the exhibition as “unlike anything we have ever done at the museum,” Barratt said it would feature a maze of geometric shapes dotted with 150 mannequins wearing Kawakubo’s designs from 1981 to the present. Julien d’Ys,

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