Rei Kawakubo / Comme des Garcons Art of the In-Between

Met Gala，或稱Met Ball，是美國紐約大都會藝術博物館服裝學院舉辦的年度慈善晚宴，目的是為了幫助紐約大都會藝術博物館服裝學院籌措經費。第一次的活動要回溯到1946年，由美國時尚圈與公關界代表人物Eleanor Lambert所發起，當時的名稱為「Costume Institute Gala」，至今年已有七十年的歷史。

2017年MET GALA的年度主題為
Rei Kawakubo / Comme des Garcons
Art of the In-Between
​The galleries illustrate the designer's revolutionary experiments in "in-betweenness"—the space between boundaries. Objects are organized into nine aesthetic expressions of interstitiality in Kawakubo's work: Absence/Presence, Design/Not Design, Fashion/Anti-Fashion, Model/Multiple, Then/Now, High/Low, Self/Other, Object/Subject, and Clothes/Not Clothes. Kawakubo breaks down the imaginary walls between these dualisms, exposing their artificiality and arbitrariness.

川久保玲的Comme des Garcons對很多人而言就像是一個傳說，她代表了叛逆反抗、永遠從各方面不斷挑戰、嘗試，同時也是成功整合想像概念與現實商業模式的優異典範，他的一言一行，每個想法及每件作品背後的意含，都有著讓人反思再三的巨大空間。
透過這次Met Gala的展覽，大家可以更清楚更近距離的欣賞她從1980年代到現在的精彩作品。
以下是我們於展覽會場的直接紀錄，簡單搭配各展區的綱目及引言，各位可以用自己的想法去解釋去想像關於她想要表達的一切，想要獲得更多相關資訊也可以前往他們的官方網站瀏覽。
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“I like to work with space and emptiness.” - Rei Kawakubo,2000

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1. Absence / Presence

“My clothes and the spaces they inhabit are inseparable - they are one and they are same. They convey the same vision, the same message, and the same sense of values.”
-Rei Kawakubo,2017
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2. Design / Not Design

“I wasn’t limited to the confines of pattern. Not being educated, not being taught how to design, I was able to visualize in a completely different context. And I still seem able to draw upon the unconventional.”
-Rei Kawakubo,1993
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3. Fashion / Antifashion

“I am not protesting against fashion. This is something else, another direction.”
​-Rei Kawakubo,1983


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4. Model / Multiple

“Fashion is not art. You sell art to one person. Fashion comes in a series and it is a more social phenomenon.”
​-Rei Kawakubo,1998



5. High / Low

“There’s value in bad taste.”
-Rei Kawakubo,2008



6. Then / Now

“The right half of my brain likes tradition and history, the left wants to break the rule.”
-Rei Kawakubo,2005


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7. Self / Other

“From the Beginning, I dispensed with any preconceived notions about Western and Eastern social all these things are irrelevant to my world…. I deliberately cast away all question of upbringing, nationality, sociology and like.” 
-Rei Kawakubo,2011


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​8. Object / Subject

 “I want to rethink the body, so the body and dress become one.”
-Rei Kawakubo,1997


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9. Clothes / Not Clothes

“If we say ’these are clothes,’ it’s all very usual, so we said ‘these are not clothes.’ It sounds like a Zen dialogue, but it is very simple.”
-Rei Kawakubo,2014



9.1 From / Function
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“Personally, I don’t care about fashion at all…. When I hear ‘where could you wear that?’ or ‘it’s not very wearable,’ or ‘who would wear that?’ to me it’s just sign that someone missed the point.”
-Rei Kawakubo,2012



9.2 Abstraction / Representation

“Things that have never been seen before have a tendency to be somewhat abstract, but making art is not my intention at all. All my effort is oriented towards giving form to clothes that have never been before.”
-Rei Kawakubo,2015


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9.3 Beautiful /  Grotesque

“I learned that beautiful things for me are not necessarily beautiful to everyone else, but they could well be something very scary.”
-Rei Kawakubo,2005



9.4 War / Peace

“One can’t fight the battle without freedom. I think the beltway to find that battle, which equals the unyielding spirit, is in the realm of creation.” 
-Rei Kawakubo,2010



9.5 Life / Loss

“Nothing new can come out of a situation without suffering.”
-Rei Kawakubo,2014


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​9.6 Fact / Fiction

“I remember reading about the way a novelist works. It said that he doesn’t think up an outline and write from the top. He writes bits and pieces and put them together at the end. That sounds familiar to me.”
-Rei Kawakubo,2012


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​9.7 Order / Chaos

“Am I an anarchist? In the sense that anarchy equals freedom, but it also means chaos.”
​-Rei Kawakubo,2016


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9.8 Bound / Unbound

“I never give myself any boundaries or let them interfere with my work.” 
-Rei Kawakubo,2011



更多資訊
☞ www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2017/rei-kawakubo
☞ http://www.metmuseum.org/-/media/Files/Exhibitions/2017/Rei%20Kawakubo%20Guide.pdf
​☞ http://players.brightcove.net/911432378001/SkBUku4V_default/index.html?videoId=5417933188001
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