“I believe in the positiveness and the value that can be born from the damaging of perfect things,” wrote Rei Kawakubo in the show notes for Comme des Garçons’ SS26 collection, titled After The Dust. For the show – as if creating from nothing – the Japanese designer shaped together plain and basic materials like burlap, calico, and linen, building them up into XXL, wearable art sculptures.
Photography Federica Fioravanti