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# Rei Kawakubo’s Funny, Topsy-Turvy Fashion
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/rei-kawakubo-comme-des-garcons-metropolitan-museum/
- Published: 2017-07-13T13:56:58.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:41:02.000Z
- Description: A survey of the designer's creations for Comme des Garçons is possibly the punkest show ever put on by the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute.
- Author: Katie Fricas
- Tags: Comics, Rei Kawakubo, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:30(2016, 2017, part 3)

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[Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between](https://hyperallergic.com/the-outlandish-and-beautiful-juxtapositions-of-rei-kawakubo/) *continues at the* [*Metropolitan Museum of Art*](http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2017/rei-kawakubo?ref=hyperallergic.com) *(1000 Fifth Ave, Upper East Side, Manhattan) through September 4.*