The clothes were as bright red as fresh blood flowing, as red as roses plucked from the earth and as profound as fashion can be. “Roses and blood,” said Rei Kawakubo after a Comme des Garçons show with an apparently unstoppable flow of scarlet women, hair in grey curls like eighteenth-century courtiers, and feet in red boots.
Every blown-up, twisted and cut-out piece of fabric making up each outfit was stained the same shade.
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