A Japanese designer, Rei Kawakubo may be miniature in stature but has massive influence.
Her collection concentrated on a subject dear to her heart, as intellectual as it was ingenious.
She had the art of subtracting and reducing a garment to its barest essentials, re-constructing it with only the bare bones, visible and then contrasting it with another item of clothing which at first look would appear to have no relevant relationship at all.
All seemed like a semi-constructed jackets, made of a few vital pattern-pieces such as a yoke, a half-sleeve, a collar, a pocket in remains of cotton, wool or flannel that were neatly attached into a recognizable shape by the addition of patch worked pieces of opaque and transparent.
The skirts felt up to the knee and below to pair the jackets.
There were T-shirts stamped with slogans - Grace and Nature or Perfect Beauty, worn with trousers and shorts.
Finally, it had plastic vest-tops featuring long strips that were laid on the skirts.
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