{"title":"Comme des Garçons","description":"\u003cp\u003eComme des Garçons was founded in Tokyo by Rei Kawakubo in 1969 and showed in Paris from 1981. The black, asymmetric and deliberately unfinished garments of the early 1980s and the later collections built around volume, pattern cutting and reconstruction made the house one of the most important of the last decades. The company also runs Comme des Garçons Homme Plus, Homme, Shirt, Play and the lines of Junya Watanabe and other designers, as well as Dover Street Market.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe AKAIBU archive holds Comme des Garçons womenswear from 1986 to 2018, with pieces from Spring Summer 1999, Spring Summer 2000, Fall Winter 2001 and Fall Winter 2007. It includes reconstructed wool and velvet pieces, bustiers, sheer and pleated dresses, patchwork, knitwear, skirts, coats and jackets. The menswear of Comme des Garçons Homme Plus is listed in its own collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComme des Garçons garments carry the line label with the season code, which starts with AD followed by the year of production. We state the line and the season in each listing when it can be confirmed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery piece in this collection is examined and authenticated in house in Vienna before it is listed. We ship worldwide with tracked delivery, and our showroom in Vienna can be visited by appointment. If you own Comme des Garçons pieces you would like to sell, see \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/consign-with-akaibu\"\u003eConsign with AKAIBU\u003c\/a\u003e. If you are looking for a specific piece that is not listed, our \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/sourcing\"\u003eSourcing\u003c\/a\u003e service can search for it.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"comme-des-garcons-ss99-half-sheer-velvet-dress","title":"Comme Des Garcons SS99 Half Sheer Velvet Dress","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis velvet dress comes from the Comme des Garçons Spring Summer 1999 collection. Sheer sections make up half of its construction, so the cloth shifts between opaque and transparent across the body. Rei Kawakubo was designing the mainline herself at the time, as she had since founding the label in Tokyo in 1969.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-ak=\"facts\"\u003eCondition: Great. Size: S.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Comme Des Garçons","offers":[{"title":"S","offer_id":39279074050105,"sku":"002871","price":640.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0009\/1593\/1193\/files\/p6544087056441-v2-0.jpg?v=1783201039"},{"product_id":"comme-des-garcons-ad2010-blazer-with-wool-inlay","title":"Comme des Garçons AD2010 Blazer with Wool Inlay","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis Comme des Garçons blazer carries the AD2010 stamp, the label's marking system that records the year a garment was produced. A wool inlay is worked into the jacket, the kind of material interruption Rei Kawakubo has long used to unsettle conventional tailoring. Production in 2010 places it in the mainline's run under Kawakubo, who has led the label since founding it in 1969.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-ak=\"facts\"\u003eCondition: Great. Has a half-chipped botton on one sleeve. Measurements: shoulder width 42 cm, chest (pit to pit) 49 cm, back length 89 cm. Size: L.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Comme Des Garçons","offers":[{"title":"L","offer_id":40101090852921,"sku":"003771","price":380.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0009\/1593\/1193\/files\/p6714426556473-v2-0.jpg?v=1783202131"},{"product_id":"comme-des-garcons-90s-asymetrical-pinstripe-robe","title":"Comme des Garcons 90s Asymetrical Pinstripe Robe","description":"\u003cp\u003eComme des Garcons made this pinstripe robe in the 1990s, the decade in which Rei Kawakubo was taking apart the conventions of tailoring and rebuilding them into asymmetrical, off balance silhouettes. Here that method lands on pinstripe, a cloth usually bound to strict suiting, cut instead into an asymmetrical robe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-ak=\"facts\"\u003eCondition: Good. Few tiny holes. Size: M.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Comme Des Garçons","offers":[{"title":"M","offer_id":43711441666312,"sku":"004274","price":480.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0009\/1593\/1193\/files\/p8022899163400-v2-0.jpg?v=1783204165"},{"product_id":"comme-des-garcons-ss99-crochet-knit-wrap-pareo","title":"Comme Des Garcons SS99 Crochet Knit Wrap Pareo","description":"\u003cp\u003eComme des Garçons made this wrap pareo for Spring\/Summer 1999, working crochet knit into a garment that ties around the body instead of being tailored to it. The format is borrowed from the Polynesian wrap skirt. It dates from a stretch of the late 1990s when Rei Kawakubo was subjecting basic garment types to constant formal experiment, two years after Body Meets Dress reshaped the silhouette outright.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-ak=\"facts\"\u003eCondition: Great. Size: S.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Comme Des Garçons","offers":[{"title":"S","offer_id":44108713984264,"sku":"004343","price":450.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0009\/1593\/1193\/files\/p8143250751752-v2-0.jpg?v=1783204349"},{"product_id":"comme-des-garcons-vintage-wool-embroidered-bustier","title":"Comme Des Garcons Vintage Wool Embroidered Bustier","description":"\u003cp\u003eComme des Garçons has repeatedly pulled the bustier out of its lingerie context, treating it as a garment to be rebuilt rather than underpinning. This one is cut in wool and finished with embroidered detailing. Wool is a material Rei Kawakubo has manipulated as intensively as any other, famously boiling and shrinking it after construction for the 1994 Metamorphosis collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-ak=\"facts\"\u003eCondition: Great. Size: One Size.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Comme Des Garçons","offers":[{"title":"OS","offer_id":44113751277832,"sku":"004356","price":330.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0009\/1593\/1193\/files\/p8144739827976-v2-0.jpg?v=1783204475"},{"product_id":"comme-des-garcons-90s-asymetrical-raw-wool-dress","title":"Comme Des Garcons 90s Asymetrical Raw Wool Dress","description":"\u003cp\u003eRei Kawakubo spent the 1990s dismantling the conventions of Western dressmaking at Comme des Garçons, and asymmetry was one of her sharpest tools. This dress carries that signature, cut off axis in raw wool. Kawakubo's mid nineties collections treated wool roughly on purpose, boiling and shrinking the fabric after the garments were sewn so that the material distorted their shape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-ak=\"facts\"\u003eCondition: Great. Measurements: shoulder width 38 cm, chest (pit to pit) 38 cm, back length 97 cm. Size: No size tag.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Comme Des Garçons","offers":[{"title":"No size tag","offer_id":44265679552776,"sku":"004502","price":320.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0009\/1593\/1193\/files\/p8191070044424-v2-0.jpg?v=1783205040"},{"product_id":"comme-des-garcons-pleated-wool-skirt","title":"Comme des Garçons Pleated Wool Skirt","description":"\u003cp\u003ePleating has recurred across Rei Kawakubo's work for Comme des Garçons, used less as decoration than as a way of controlling how a garment moves and hangs. This skirt applies that approach to wool. Kawakubo founded the label in Tokyo in 1969 and has shown it in Paris since 1981.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-ak=\"facts\"\u003eCondition: Great. Measurements: waist 32 cm, outer leg 73 cm. 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Size: M.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Comme Des Garçons","offers":[{"title":"M","offer_id":53293923926280,"sku":"V-W4FNZG4Z","price":650.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0009\/1593\/1193\/files\/p10747794850056-v2-0.jpg?v=1783209272"},{"product_id":"comme-des-garcons-ss00-by-rei-kawakubo-pleated-bustier-dress","title":"Comme Des Garcons SS00 by Rei Kawakubo Pleated Bustier Dress","description":"\u003cp\u003eRei Kawakubo described her Spring Summer 2000 collection as beautiful chaos, a season she built around sculptural texture and irregular blocks of colour rather than the padded forms of the years before.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis dress takes that texture into the bodice, where the silk is gathered and pleated by hand into vertical folds that run front and back and pull in at the centre. Below it the skirt is cut wide and left flat, falling away from the body in plain panels. 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