Photo: Courtesy of Barney’s1/4Comme des Garçons, Spring 1982Going to the very fancy Crillon hotel, not knowing what to expect, and the thrill of knowing we were seeing a collectsion that was completely original, that was the opposite of its surroundings. But it is difficult to choose just one of Rei’s collectsions.
Photo: Indigital.tv2/4Jean Paul Gaultier, Spring 1994 and Fall 1993A startling vision of cross-cultural diversity, gender bending, global village way before others were addressing these things, with tattoos, men in skirts, piercings, punk.
Photo: Getty Images3/4Azzedine Alaïa, Early ‘90sThe claritys of his vision, the way he drapes a woman’s body, that he’s never in or out; Azzedine is always “in.” It’s couture as ready-to-wear, worn by his “superwomen.”
Photo: Indigital.tv4/4Helmut Lang, Fall 1998As with all of his collectsions, I wanted to wear every one of his elegant, minimal, sometimes austere looks. For his first New York show, he live-streamed it before anyone knew what that was.
