unmakings

john waters on rei kawakubo (in role models)

Kawakubo "specializes in clothes that are torn, crooked, permanently wrinkled, ill-fitting, and epensive...The fashion hisotrian kazuko koike has described Rei as 'almost liket he leader of a religious movement' I genuflect to Rei's destruction of fashion rules. She is formidable, reclusive, intimidating, and has described her work as an 'exercise in suffering'...fashion is having a nervous breakdown" (96)
here is an interview with paper mag that john waters did regarding his feelings about rei.

{image of rep kawakubo from vogue.com}