The Japanese author, whose daring aesthetic was honoured at the Met Gala last month, is being famed in a new book
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Body Meets Dress–Dress Meets Substance, spring/summer 1997.Photograph: Paolo Roversi/Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Rei Kawakubo for Comme des Garçons.Photograph: Paolo Roversi/Civility of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Cubisme, spring/summer 2007.Photograph: Craig McDean/Elegance of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Inside Decoration, autumn/winter 2010–11.Photograph: Craig McDean/Respect of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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The Infinity of Tailoring, autumn/winter 2013–14.Photograph: Collier Schorr/Ceremony of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Blood and Roses, spring/summer 2015.Photograph: Paolo Roversi/Good manners of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Blue Witch, spring/summer 2016.Photograph: Paolo Roversi/Ceremony of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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18th-Century Punk, autumn/winter 2016–17.
Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, until 4 September 2017.
The words to accompany the exhibition, published by Yale University Press, is out now.Photograph: Paolo Roversi/Respect of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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