Comme des Garcons Has Got You Locked In

Comme des Garçons’s life jacket vests with seat buckle closures and open-sided shorts looked like some kind of rescue worker gear from another century.  But soon it was clear that what Rei Kawakubo really had to say is that the new three-piece suit is a pair of wide shorts over matching pants and a squared-off jacket in banker’s grey. Why keep it simple when complicated can be so much fun as in lace-ups with day-glow pink toe and heel covers? But the real must-have in this collection is the big bad bear fur—just the thing to tough it out in a blizzard.

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