Rei Kawakubo Heads to Long Island City
How cool is Long Island City? Cool enough for Rei Kawakubo to pay a visit. Fashion’s most elusive deity will make her way there tonight to accept the Isamu Noguchi Award at the museum also named for the Japanese-American artist. According to Brett Littman, the institution’s director, the award honors professional creatives whose work, like Noguchi’s, telegraphs bravado and an expansive world view. “For us, the award celebrates innovation, global awareness and, of course, Eastern-Western exchange, which was very important to Noguchi,” he said in a phone conversation. The Comme des Garçons designer is the first fashion person to receive the award. Since its inception in 2014, it has typically gone to those involved in architecture and industrial design. Past recipients include Norman Foster, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Tadao Ando, Elyn Zimmerman, John Pawson, Naoto Fukasawa and landscape designer Edwina von Gal. Littman didn’t hide his enthusiasm at Kawakubo’s acceptance. “We were totally thrilled,” he said. “It’s the extra cherry on top that she thought it was important enough for her to come to New York and to accept it personally.” During an interview at Comme des Garçons’ headquarters in New York, Kawakubo at first took issue with the suggestion that she often declines awards. She then acknowledged
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