Rei Kawakubo

Comme des Garçons, WHITE DRAMA from PREMICES FILMS on Vimeo.

All the more inspiring for revealing French fashion curator and critic Olivier Saillard's construction of the exhibit .

A vital luxury brand has to engage and reflect a contemporary world to maintain its relevancy.

The ideas about to be expressed are not all mine. They were gleaned during a dinner conversation at Kingdom in Bushwick, which is a pretty funny place to have a sustained conversation about "luxury".

Thee, 2008 and Life forms, 2008 . Artwork by Helmut Lang.PH Elfie Semotan

10 years from now when we consider how the internet altered the nature of fashion and of art, full respect needs to be paid to Helmut Lang.

Have you ever seen a dedicated Dover Street Market on-line platform anywhere else before?

Short of a monthly 14hr flight back and forth between Tokyo and NYC, how does a dedicated follower of Japanese street style keep up?

Comme to the retail rescue!

TI is frothing at the thought of the ideas to be unleashed at that Black Comme Des Garcons intervention.

CDG/LV Tokyo Image via designboom.com