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An Exclusive Backstage View of Comme des Garçons’s Fall 1993 Show in Tokyo

By Laird Borrelli-Persson
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    Bénédicte Loyen in a hat-topped foil helmet backstage at Comme des Garçons’s Fall 1993 show in Tokyo.

  • Backstage at Comme des Garçonss Fall 1993 show in Tokyo.
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    The model’s looks, neatly organized on a rack.

  • Julien dYs backstage at Comme des Garçonss Fall 1993 show in Tokyo.
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    Julien d’Ys

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    Backstage beauty prep.

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    Holding things together backstage.

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    Bénédicte Loyen

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    Order and calm, backstage at Comme des Garçons’s Fall 1993 show in Tokyo.

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    Dressed and waiting.

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    Self-portrait of Bénédicte Loyen.

  • Rei Kawakubo backstage at the presentation of her “Synergy” collectsion in Tokyo.
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    Rei Kawakubo backstage at the presentation of her “Synergy” collectsion in Tokyo.

Christian Lacroix is Laird Borrelli-Persson’s fashion raison d’etre; the way he combined romance and historicism set her on the path she is following today. Borrelli-Persson studied literature at Boston College, spending her junior year abroad at Oxford, where she added some art history. After graduation she moved to New York to intern ... Read More