Vintage Comme des Garcons Black Platform Shoes 2004

Detail: Wonderfully expressive vintage black slip on shoes by Comme des Garcons from the brands AW 2004 collection. Leather uppers with nailed leather trimmed surround. Hand painted one piece wooden platform and heel. Rubber sole. Exquisitely Japanese craftmenship.

Period: AW Collection 2004. 

Condition: Unworn. A few minor scuffs exist from storage

Sizing: Japanese 24.5. UK 6. EU 39. US 8.5

Heel : 3.5"

Platform : 1.5"

Width : 3.25"

Insole : 9.75"

Colour: Black

Fabric: Leather, Wood

Origin: Japan

Care: Always use a good cobbler

Like her contemporaries, Issey Miyake and Yohji Yamamoto, Rei Kawakubo is an intellectual designer for whom fashion is a fine art. Her clothes require a different thought level, her pieces destroy preconceived ideas. The Comme des Garçons' concept sticks to the same principles: minimalist display and perplexing cuts. Often the uninitiated cannot understand where Kawakubo is coming from: sometimes shapeless and complicated, complex and baffling, a Comme des Garçons collection exposes the inner workings of a lapel, leaves edges unfinished and reduces a sweater to an unintelligible mass of boiled wool. In the autumn/winter 1996 collection, Kawakubo experimented with padded humps. The end product - nicknamed Quasimodo by the tabloid press for obvious reasons - had removable pads positioned in a variety of places. Her biannual magazine Six (from sixth sense), with its esoteric photographs and references to Zen, will probably one day be the subject of Freudian analysis. Despite its unorthodox associations, Comme des Garçons has populist appeal: there are more than 300 outlets in 33 countries worldwide. Rei Kawakubo was the first to use `real' people as catwalk models, including Hollywood stars Dennis Hopper, Matt Dillon, John Malkovich and John Hurt. Wearer of austere expressions and giver of few interviews, Kawakubo said, in Rei Kawakubo and Comme des Garçons (1990), `What I do is concerned with the long term, and yet fashion is cyclical. It is a paradox, but it doesn't bother me. It's always exciting to do a new collection. Vintage Comme des Garcons Black Platform Shoes 2004.