The SS24 collection of Comme des Garçons Homme Plus arrived with one explanation: “In order to find a new world we have to go beyond reality,” which, given the current context, seems as though Kawakubo might be cosigning AI-generated art. The shoes – double-footed derbies, conjoined and split at the toe – certainly looked like an ascendant Midjourney artist might have produced them.
Photography Cris Fragkou