Rei Kawakubo: 'Lumps' (1997)

"The name says it all. One model walked out looking as though she had an eight-month pregnancy bump on her side. Another seemed to have some kind of giant tumour growing out of her back.

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But in the silence, broken only by the mechanical whir of the photographers' shutters clicking and winding, it was all decidedly unsettling. The audience didn't know what to do with themselves. Some sniggered and smirked, trying to catch the eye of someone else to share the joke. Others looked incredulous."

> De collectie 'Lumps' (1997) van Rei Kawakubo, the queen of radical fashion, voor 'Comme des Garçons'.