Craig McDean Eyes AnOther Magazine SS 2019 Cover Story With Rei Kawakubo Interview On Fashion's Future

Craig McDean captures Anok Yai, Ansley Gulielmi, Bente Oort, Birgit Kos, Hannah Motler, Kaila Wyatt, Kiki Willems, Lineisy Montero and Sora Choi in another Spring/Summer 2019 fashion overview. Stylist Katie Shillingford styles the shoot for AnOther Magazine.

The photoshoot appears as part of an interview with Rei Kawakubo, who asserted after her own SS2019 show, that “the conviction to make clothes that are new and strong and stimulate the heart and push ahead in order to live”.  AnOther writes about the spring/summer 2019 collections:

Individually, they produced work that felt somehow unified. Though diverse in look, they voiced similar concerns, exploring notions of confusion, duality, dichotomy. These concepts were arguably illustrated most explicitly by Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons through the extraordinary clothes she designed but also through her own words. In a missive issued after her show, the designer was unusually expansive. “Comme des Garçons from now on is not about outwardly evident design and expression but about the design of content, about what’s deep inside,” she said. “The collection will be quiet, serenely internal, free of design on the surface. Continuing in a state of perplexity is a risk. Advancing ahead while fumbling around in the dark is also a risk. I believe that Comme des Garçons should choose the latter.”