Publicity-Shy Rei Kawakubo Speaks, Says She Never Intends To Make Clothes

Rei Kawakubo is one of the first names to know when one is bitten by the bug of "fashion geekery," the example of a true designer/artist, a visionary who not only plays by her own rules but continually reorganizes the game. Every season, Comme des Garçons is worth a watch, be it for Kawakubo's imaginative offerings, her revolutionary approach to fashion as being something beyond what is worn, or her confounding take on cut, silhouette, and material, often offering the downright unwearable. Ka...