This set of Guide and Album were published for the 2017 Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition of Rei Kawakubo, the Japanese avant-garde fashion designer who founded Comme des Garçons in 1973 and Dover Street Market in 2004. The 2017 Met Gala was devoted to the Japanese label Comme des Garçons and designer Rei Kawakubo. Visitors to the exhibition were provided with a print Guide as the space was designed without detailed labels, only themes e.g. “Fashion/Antifashion”, “Beautiful/Grotesque”, “Self/Other”. The Guide’s layout uses folding to present each theme in greater detail if the reader wishes. The Album, also of unusual construction, contains an essay “What do Clothes Wear” by Mark Wigley and 21 images of the gallery space designed by exhibition curator Andrew Bolton and Kawakubo.

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2017. Guide: Staple bound pamphlet made of 10 sheets printed on both sides. As presented folded, 28 x 11 cm. Album: printed on heavy card, concertina folded. 28 x 21.5 cm. The set of Guide and Photographic Album are near fine.