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A dress from the 2005 "Broken Bride" collection.
May our merciful Lord Jesus have pity on us, His broken bride".
In March, she showed a Fall-Winter collection whose theme was "The Broken Bride," which was almost universally admired.
Despite the relative accessibility of "The Broken Bride," Kawakubo denies vehemently that she has mellowed ("I am still as aggressive as I've always been"), and every few years she reasserts her militance by exploding another bomb on the Paris stage.
He has been the creator of memorable Comme headgear, from clowns to crowns or the veils of the evocative "Broken Bride" collection in 2005, about which Ms. Kawakubo says: "It wasn't simply a collection about weddings, although that may have been the first word.
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There was a wisp of sadness in the final lineup of pearl-strewn white dresses, like the "Broken Brides" once put on the runway at Comme des Garçons.
The tailored capes, coats with elongated trumpets of sleeves and the trellis cages did not seem like a reprise of the "Broken Brides" of 2005, one of Ms. Kawakubo's unforgettable and deeply felt collections.
This collection, like so many of Ms. Kawakubo's, including the famous "Broken Brides" show, was really about the role of consciousness and the duty among creative people to be as forceful and intelligent in their expressions as possible — hence her decision to do an all-white show with extreme elements.
"I am as broken and ashamed as a bride who is not a virgin on her wedding night".
"It's helped distract me from the fact that I'm a jilted bride, that a broken engagement will always be part of my life story".
As Rachel Safier says, author of There Goes the Bride, a survival guide to broken engagements, "It's the menschy thing to do; it's the right, kind thing to do".
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