Comme des Garçons 1998SS Suit part of the house's 1990s

part of the house's 1990s period of drape-led womenswear and monochrome palettes

An MM6 two-in-one design combining a sleeveless black-and-white column dress with a separate white wrap overlay

The season belongs to the period in which Owens' palette and proportion language — elongated torsos

A spring/summer 2011 coat from Junya Watanabe

Fine vertical pleats change direction across the shoulders and sleeves

Comme des Garçons 1998SS Suit part of the house's 1990sA suit from Comme des Garons, Spring Summer 1998. Rei Kawakubo designed the house's main line throughout this period a late 1990s conceptual peak characterised by anti fit, asymmetry, and pattern cutting treated as concept rather than convention.