Comme Des Garçons: Six. Sixth Sense. 1-8. (A Complete Run).

KAWAKUBO, Rei. 
Comme Des Garçons: Six. Sixth Sense. 1-8. (A Complete Run). 
First edition. A complete run of 8 magazines. Folio (40 x 30cm). Unpaginated in screen printed wraps with the original logo printed bags. All issues range from very good to fine condition. Tokyo: Comme Des Garcons, 1988-1991. 

A complete set of the iconic Comme Des Garçons periodical Six. Published bi-annually from 1988 Six was a large format magazine acting as a conceptual look-book for the Comme brand. Sumptuously printed, the pages are full of energy with numerous cut-out details and spot colours. Tsuguya Inoue's design gives each volume its own visual language seamlessly pairing archival material with work by leading image makers. The large scale of a folio format gives space to contributions from Salvadore Dali, Robert Frank, Josef Koudelka, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Peter Lindbergh, Alaia, Issey Miyake, Gilbert & George, Kishin Shinoyama and many others. Deliberately image-led and enigmatic, Rei Kawakubo envisioned the magazine as an exploration of a 'sixth sense'. Kawakubo says of the project: "High fashion has to have a mystery about it. This is the next step: visual representation of the collection, purely for image." A landmark in fashion publishing.