PARIS — Being only the second living designer to be selected for a solo show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute is the kind of thing that can put a lot of pressure on a girl. Even if she is Rei Kawakubo, the famously abstruse and oracular 74-year-old founder of Comme des Garçons. This is particularly true during fashion week, if she happens to be holding a show, as Ms. Kawakubo did on Saturday. (Tant pis; they kept the seats to the usual 300 or so.) Second, there is the presence of the Met — and Met Gala — crew in the front row: Andrew Bolton, the institute’s curator in charge; Anna Wintour, the gala’s co-chairwoman (and editor of Vogue); and Catherine Martin, the costume designer, an occasional Met collaborator and wife of the film director Baz Luhrmann.

Source: New York Times March 05, 2017 16:18 UTC