{"id":445088,"date":"2015-04-08T20:24:22","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T18:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.elorainweb.com\/?p=445088"},"modified":"2024-05-12T11:03:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T09:03:05","slug":"comme-des-garcons-dazed-avril-2015-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fredericsanchez.com\/fredericsanchez\/comme-des-garcons-dazed-avril-2015-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Comme des Gar\u00e7ons &#8211; Dazed &#8211; Avril 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify; \">\nComme des Gar\u00e7ons &#8211; Dazed &#8211; April 2015<\/p>\n<p>Love, lust, life and death with Comme des Gar\u00e7ons<\/p>\n<p>Taken from the Spring 2015 issue of Dazed:<\/p>\n<p>In a season defined by an obsession with placid beauty, Rei Kawakubo \u2013 one of fashion\u2019s most defiant and cryptic figures \u2013 hit us with a collection that raged violently against the surface level. Inside a derelict warehouse in Paris, she sent out an aggressive procession of explosive silhouettes rendered in an overwhelming, all-red colour palette. Red has always been a powerful signifier, but in the hands of the Comme des Gar\u00e7ons figurehead, its conflicting associations with rage, suffering, love, lust, life and death all came into emotional consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>Kawakubo\u2019s signature is to create clothes that demand an extreme reaction, but this season\u2019s show felt powerfully unnerving, set to a jarring soundtrack curated by Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Sanchez featuring drone metal bands such as Earth and Sunn O))). \u201cWith Comme des Gar\u00e7ons it\u2019s different because Rei doesn\u2019t tell you about a theme,\u201d says Sanchez. \u201cWhat was interesting \u2013 and something I hadn\u2019t experienced in a long time \u2013 was that she really wanted me to look at the clothes very intensely beforehand. The moment I saw the collection, violent and emotional images came into my head. I thought of Derek Jarman movies, like The Last of England, and the Countess Elizabeth B\u00e1thory (the infamous female serial killer known for bathing in her victims\u2019 blood). It was violent and passionate, but without the feeling of horror. The final idea was to do something subtle. Something that felt like no music, but which filled the space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Backstage, the notoriously elusive designer gave the words \u2018roses\u2019 and \u2018blood\u2019 as her explanation for the show. It was an interesting pairing: two disparate ideas that came together in this most conflicted of collections. \u201cThere was something almost operatic and theatrical because of the red,\u201d says Sanchez. \u201cIt gave a feeling of unreality, while also expressing something about the violent world we live in at the moment. It\u2019s not real, but it is \u2013 that\u2019s what makes it so special.\u201d For Kawakubo, clothes alone have never told the whole story. What she achieved this season was to trigger an emotional response that stayed with us, reverberating far beyond the catwalk. Fashion could do with more of that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/article\/24184\/1\/love-lust-life-and-death-with-comme-des-garcons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dazeddigital.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comme des Gar\u00e7ons &#8211; Dazed &#8211;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fs-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredericsanchez.com\/fredericsanchez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredericsanchez.com\/fredericsanchez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredericsanchez.com\/fredericsanchez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredericsanchez.com\/fredericsanchez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredericsanchez.com\/fredericsanchez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fredericsanchez.com\/fredericsanchez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredericsanchez.com\/fredericsanchez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredericsanchez.com\/fredericsanchez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredericsanchez.com\/fredericsanchez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}