Designers
Rei Kawakubo Built a Career on the Answer 'Why Not'
The Comme des Garçons founder, who showed in Paris first in 1981, made asymmetry, deformity and refusal into a design language — and a business.
Designers
Designers profiles the people making the collections: their training, their studios, their material habits and the constraints they work under. Coverage spans debut labels and established houses changing hands. Suited to readers who follow careers across seasons and want the background before the reviews arrive.
Designers
Azzedine Alaïa, the Cutter Who Refused the Calendar
The Tunisian-born couturier built a house on cut alone, showed on his own schedule and stayed independent inside a conglomerate age.