COMME des GARCONS x Hermès

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COMME des GARCONS x Hermès – Comme des Carrés Scarf Collection Announced

Today an exciting designer collaboration project has been announced. Japanese designer Rei Kawakubo from COMME des GARCONS, has worked with French luxury brand Hermès on two exclusive limited-edition collections of mythical silk carré scarves. For those of you that love the iconic scarves by the French brand, yet find them most of the time a little too old-school in terms of design, you can probably start getting excited about this new team-up.

The first collection, entitled Noir et Blanc, will feature abstract black-and-white designs and will be sold exclusively at COMME des GARCONS stores in Aoyama Tokyo, Paris and New York. The second collection, entitled Colour, consists of six colorful scarves that feature geometric elements like giant patchwork, Vichy checks and shirt stripes. These will launch exclusively at Dover Street Market London.

The limited edition scarves will release February 2013.
 
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Rei Kawakubo collaborates with Hermès
Rei Kawakubo, the founder of fashion label Comme des Garçons, has teamed up with Hermès to design two collections of silk scarves.

Rei Kawakubo, the publicity-shy founder of avant-garde label Comme des Garçons, has teamed up with Hermès to create two limited-edition collections of the French brand's iconic silk scarves, or carrés, as they are better known.

Named Comme des Carrés, the collaboration will hit stores in February. The first collection, "Noir et Blanc", will feature five scarves in various black-and-white designs and be sold exclusively in Comme des Garçons stores in Tokyo's Aoyama neighbourhood, New York and Paris. The second, "Couleur", will be more colourful and stocked at both the London and Tokyo branches of Dover Street Market.

"I have always had an immense respect for Hermès' tradition and artisanal know-how," Kawakubo told WWD . "During this joint project, rather than being guided by the idea of the scarf as it is worn, I became interested instead in the beautiful 'artworks' that the designs on Hermès carrés represent, and I sought to change them by adding elements. By combining them with abstract images, we have transformed the carré and created a unique object," she added.
Kawakubo, who is also the founder of cult concept store Dover Street Market, already has a number collaborations under her belt, including those with Azzedine Alaïa, Louis Vuitton, Speedo, Paco Rabanne, Fred Perry, Stephen Jones, Moncler.
fashion.telegraph.co.uk
 
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