This year's biggest fashion night - and the upcoming exhibition it celebrated - was honoring one of the most avant-garde fashion designers of all time: Rei Kawakubo.
At the same time, Rei Mihara, a Tokyo housewife, formed a similar pressure group in Japan, and 18 Japanese lawyers attempted to sue the Japanese government to force them to accept diplomatic and financial responsibility for the transportation of the Sakhalin Koreans and their return to South Korea.
The fact remains that he was, in his actions, his religion, and his time, vir rei publicae necessarius, "the man whom the State needed".
At the same time, said Rei Inamoto, chief creative officer at AKQA, "we don't want to be so 'bleeding edge' that you have to have a $500 phone to access the brand".
"Consumerism has had a push for a long period of time," Jerry Stritzke, REI's chief executive, told The Huffington Post on Monday.
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The Galliera Museum's extra-mural program continues at Les Docks -- Cité de la Mode et du Design with two simultaneous exhibitions dedicated to two renowned fashion designers from different periods of time: Cristóbal Balenciaga and Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons (see my previous post on Rei Kawakubo's exhibit).
It was offered genially, like his melodies and his undidactic thoughts on love, poetic license ("Metáfora") and mortality ("Tempo Rei," or "King Time").
With a defence that can be shaky at times in front of him, "Rei" Artur (as he is known among Benfica fans) has delivered a number of match-saving performances this season, reducing former Portugal No1 Eduardo (the man he replaced at Braga) to a bit-part role.
Four times a year, the Japanese designer Rei Kawakubo flies to Paris from Tokyo to show her men's and women's Comme des Garçons collections.
