AW99 Comme des Garçons Fuchsia Tapestry Wool Skirt Vivienne Westwood worked with Helmut Lang and

worked with Helmut Lang and Uniqlo’s LifeWear

inflatable constructions

Functioning as a continuous exploration of industrial beauty and precision engineering

drawing on 1980s escapism (which led to the Second Summer of Love)

and secondary shapes through overlap and tension

AW99 Comme des Garçons Fuchsia Tapestry Wool Skirt Vivienne Westwood worked with Helmut Lang andAs the 1990s drew to a close, fashion in the West had settled into quiet restraint. Minimalism reigned: clean cuts, muted palettes, a direct response to the excess and decadence of the previous decade. But not in Japan. Comme des Garons Autumn Winter 1999 collection, Transformed Glamour, marked a pivotal moment in Rei Kawakubos ongoing exploration of femininity, beauty, and rupture. It was a tactile, punk inflected reinterpretation of glamour. One