Description
ISSUE ONE
available in four different cover options
This issue is a non-official tribute to Japanese fashion designer Rei Kawakubo and her eponymous label Comme des Garçons, with fashion editorials, written pieces and illustrations inspired by her work
Featuring _
Julien d’Ys – in an exclusive 32-page portfolio with images from his personal archive
Ilker Akyol _ an intriguing behind-the-scenes look at Comme des Garçons, blending photography and painting in a single frame with the following collections _ s/s 2015, s/s 2016, a/w & s/s 2017 and a/w 2019
Alex Babboni – who wrote an original film script [for the second part of a trilogy that started in ‘issue zero’], where life/death and love/hate are intertwined in a dreamlike shape, inspired by the works of David Lynch, Federico Fellini, Andrei Tarkovsky, Michelangelo Antonioni and others
Paulo Babboni – with drawings/illustrations merging Comme des Garçons’ iconic collections with cinema masterpieces by _
Pier Paolo Pasolini / Lars Von Trier / James Whale / Luchino Visconti / Akira Kurosawa / David Cronenberg / John Waters / Federico Fellini / David Lynch / Jane Campion / Ettore Scola / Sergei Eisenstein / Francis Ford Coppola / Shohei Imamura / Peter Greenaway / Ingmar Bergman / among others
Written pieces on – Quay Brothers by Jeremy Clarke, Theo Angelopoulos and Rei Kawakubo by Redmond Bacon
20-page portfolio – with images by filmmakers and directors of photography from Los Angeles, Paris, New York and London [presenting _ Kelsey Talton / Stef Kwinten / Alexi Papalexopoulos / Geoffrey Yahya Vargas / Chazz Fenner-McBride / Louis Dazy]
Also – a fashion story stylised with archive pieces from Comme des Garçons Paris début; the minimal, groundbreaking collections from the 80’s and 90’s
DOESN’T EXIST _ a magazine for fashion, cinema and art lovers