The 2017 Met Gala Theme Will Be Comme des Garçons’ Rei Kawakubo
- bookingkelsey
- Oct 27, 2016
- 2 min read
The Metropolitan Museum announced last Friday that the theme for 2017 will be
“Rei Kawakubo / Commes des Garçons.”
Model walking the runway at the Comme des Garçons Spring 2017 fashion show during Paris Fashion Week (Photo by Catwalking/Getty Images)
The show will feature about 120 womenswear pieces by Japanese designed Kawabuko, beginning with the brand's first runway collection from 1981 up to the present-day collection. The pieces will be arranged by contrasting themes (East/West, male/female, past/present). This will be the first exhibit at the museum to feature a living designer since the 1983 Yves Saint Laurent show. Interesting enough, this will also be the first show Kawabuko will be attending. According to a New York Times interview, the designer has never previously been invited to the Met Gala in the past, despite her incredible works.
"Vogue (editor-in-chief Anna Wintour is a Trustee of the Met and also has the Costume Institute’s space named after her) Costume Institute curator in charge Andrew Bolton says the choice of Kawakubo as the subject of this year’s exhibit came from her influence." - Cady Lang, Time Magazine
“Rei Kawakubo is one of the most important and influential designers of the past forty years,” Bolton said. “By inviting us to rethink fashion as a site of constant creation, recreation, and hybridity, she has defined the aesthetics of our time.”
Rei Kawakubo for Comme des Garçons, “Body Meets Dress, Dress Meets Body,” Spring 1997
Photo: Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Paolo Roversi
Keeping to schedule, the gala will be held on May 1st, the first Monday of the month. The party will be cochaired by Katy Perry, Pharrell Williams, Anna Wintour, and the honoree Rei Kawabuko.
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