In twenty years you have the person who gave you the nature; in thirty years, you have a person who molded your life; and at fifty you have the face you deserve.

comme des garcons

Ray Kavakubo was born in Tokyo. She graduated from the prestigious Keio University, where she studied Eastern and Western aesthetics. Then arranged in the advertising department of Asahi Kasei, invents a synthetic fabric, and since 1967, works part-time stylist. Art history education and proximity to the textile technology, come, apparently, in a complex alchemical reaction, and Kavakubo begins to think his first dresses.
1969 Ray founded the brand Comme des Garcons: French-speaking in the name of "As the boys' designer by his own admission" not invested anything special. " Not knowing how to sew, she is literally on the fingers of a tailor explains that he wants to see. Revealed that she wants things extravagant, but certainly a success. Four years later, Comme des Garcons converted into the company, and soon started a line for men.
1981 moved to Paris, Kavakubo happy first show in Europe. Shaw makes a bombshell. Journalists and write: "The post-nuclear fashion", "Hiroshima-chic" - described what he saw in terms of the commonplaces did not succeed. For some asymmetric inky black stuff from the crumpled tissues seem to be the apotheosis of absurdity, for others - a compelling impact on the cliches of the Old World. Raging Rae makes clothes in the intellectual adventure that breathes the urban jungle and the brutality of Japanese elegance. While other designers in the old drape models Kavakubo working with silhouettes, like a poet with the manners vivisectionist - twists, shreds, leaving unfinished seams, tearing off the sleeves and turning pockets. "I hate symmetry. Worth hearing in this recognition is not so much love to deconstruct, as manifest an unusual relationship to the beautiful: Life begins where if you deviate from the dead is correct. It is in this spirit, the beauty of understanding young Belgian avant-garde, having declared himself in the mid-80: Anne and Martin Demelmeyster Mardzhela openly say how they touched defile Kavakubo and Yohji Yamamoto. Since 1981, Ray became a regular participant of the Fashion Week in Paris.