Rei Kawakubo’s Chairs Were Never Meant to Be Comfortable

Highsnobiety | 16.06.2026 23:33
If you think “comfort” would be a key criterion for designing a good chair, you’d be wrong, if only because Rei Kawakubo exists. The avant-garde COMME des GARÇONS founder has long held the title of fashion’s Patron Saint of Form Over Function, spending decades designing clothes that often exist more as sculpture than actual day-to-day wear.