SS09 Tao Comme des Garçons Stripe Gathered Bolero Blackmeans drawing on Catholic iconography and

drawing on Catholic iconography and reframing it as fashion

and as a form of atonement for the hardships Owens faced in his youth

W&LT stood at the pinnacle of European underground rave culture with slogans championing ecology

Inner vest with sleeves

Sleeve 67cm

SS09 Tao Comme des Garçons Stripe Gathered Bolero Blackmeans drawing on Catholic iconography andFor Spring Summer 2009, Tao Kurihara summoned a misted collection for Tao Comme des Garons that marched with discipline and floated with tenderness. Drawing from the fogbound traditions of Scottish Highland dress, she reimagined garments once built for ceremony and battle into something lighter and more personal for contemporary women. Kuriharas pageant of folkloric, almost dreamlike fashion featured models dressed in short, sheer jackets that