For Rei Kawakubo’s AW26 Comme des Garçons collection, the designer decided to play a trick on us. Like at Prada last week – when Raf and Mrs P showed 60 looks on 15 models – Kawakubo also tried to pull the wool over our eyes, showing versions of the same looks in different colours. “I have come to realise that, after all, black is the colour for me,” read the designer’s show notes, explaining that the whole collection had been inspired by the shade. The first 16 looks came all in black, until suddenly, the music cut out and there was a surprising change of direction.
Photography Federica Fioravanti