Rei Kawakubo
| Rei Kawakubo | |
|---|---|
| Born |
かわくぼ れい 川久保 玲 11 October 1942 Tokyo, Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Education | Keio University |
| Occupation | Fashion designer |
| Spouse(s) | Adrian Joffe |
| Labels | Comme des Garçons |
Rei Kawakubo (川久保 玲 Kawakubo Rei?) born 11 October 1942, is a Japanese fashion designer from Tokyo. She is the founder of Comme des Garçons and Dover Street Market.
She is an untrained fashion designer, but studied fine arts and literature at Keio University. After graduation, Kawakubo worked in the advertising department at the textile company, Ashai Kasei and she went on to work as a freelance stylist in 1967.[1]
Two years later, she began to make her own clothes under the label Comme des Garçons, before incorporating the label in 1973.
Between the 1980s and 1990s Kawakubo was in a relationship with fellow 'Hiroshima Chic' fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto, but the relationship ended. Kawakubo later went on to marry Adrian Joffe, the current CEO of Comme des Garçons and Dover Street Market. She lives in Tokyo but often travels to Paris to her companies' head offices in the Place Vendôme and also sometimes makes rare visits to some of her fashion shows.
In 1973, she established her own company, Comme des Garçons Co. Ltd in Tokyo and opened up her first boutique there in 1975. Starting out with women's clothes, Kawakubo added a men's line in 1978. Three years later, she started presenting her fashion lines in Paris each season, opening up a boutique in Paris in 1982.
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