BOSTON — When actor Billy Porter unveiled his combination tuxedo-ball gown at the Oscars last month, it got people talking....
If there’s one industry that women dominate, it must be fashion.
It’s not a stretch to call the inscrutable, rules-bending fashion of Rei Kawakubo, the founder of Comme des Garçons, esoteric.
The color red made a dramatic show Monday night in the grand parade of fashion at the Met Gala, including co-chair Katy Perry's look, as did glittery gold and blue feathers on the back of Blake Lively. But many of the evening's highlights were courtesy of luminaries who channeled honoree Rei Kawakubo, including Rihanna encased in fluttery petal-like pieces by the Japanese designer.
If one still needed proof that the Philippines is already on the radar of high-end brands, one got it last Friday night. The chairperson and managing director of Comme des Garçons flew to Manila Friday morning, checked out its store at Univers, and went around the high-end malls.
I have always loved almost everything Japanese. And one thing I strongly share with most of them is the belief that “black is not the absence of color, but the presence of all colors.”
At the end of Summer 2012 Paris collections, it became clear it was really women designers who wore the pants....
