#315 June – July – August 2017 Cover Artwork:Pier Paolo Calzolari The issue is built on

The issue is built on two mirroring trajectories

Philippe DecrauzatCentre Culturel Suisse/Paris

but necessarily deals with strategies of image-making on the canvas

In 1967 and 1968

by Lucia Arbery Simek

#315 June – July – August 2017 Cover Artwork:Pier Paolo Calzolari The issue is built onHaving founded her label Comme des Garons in 1969, Rei Kawakubo is only the second living designer (after Yves Saint Laurent) to be honored with a solo show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. According to Jeremy Lewis, What makes [her] clothes radical is that although they are not always recognizable as clothes, they were always meant to be worn. Kawakubos deconstructed style raw and cerebral seems to take clothing outside of itself and to reposition