This story originally appeared in the December issue of Vogue Australia .

In an unremarkable office building, stripped bare during renovations in Paris’s Montparnasse, guests hurried inside. An autumn downpour claimed some of the crowd without umbrellas, but their haste had much more to do with the impending spring/summer 2026 Comme des Garçons show. In contrast to the frenzy, the brand’s staff calmly greeted people individually at the door, among them Adrian Joffe, the label’s president and husband to the woman of the hour Rei Kawakubo, Comme des Garçon s’s creative director.

As the show commenced, models in Kawakubo’s creations were let loose, floating onto the stage to acapella vocals of Spanish experimental singer Fátima Miranda. The first was like an undulating, cocooning column

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