‘Nowadays if you want to know anything, you can get as much information as you want from the internet and it’s an experience. But still I can’t be satisfied.

I yearn after a nomadic life where you can truly live freely by yourself, not flocking together, not belonging anywhere. It is enviable. The collection this time is nomad.’

Those were the probing words that came with the collection footnotes for the COMME des GARÇONS Homme Plus Fall/ Winter 2022 collection.

It’s a statement that resonates. After lockdowns, curfews, and restrictions on socializing, learning to be in one’s own company suddenly became a highly desirable skill to acquire, in order to get oneself through the global pandemic. Whatever our reality was during the pandemic, for most of us, a desire to break free and travel the world, away from the restraints of city life and home office dwelling and without restrictions or worries became a pretty common daydream, nothing out of the ordinary.

An unexpected aftermath of it all however, was the struggle that came once we started to get back to how we were. Mentally adapting to socializing, people, crowds, commitments and engagements. The sudden realization of the pressures of the human existence, and of modern society, hit. Leaving us, yes still yearning for the liberties of yesterday, but also, craving a different kind of liberty. Craving the newfound ability we had gained to adapting to being alone and confined.

Rei Kawakubo’s nomadic universe is a collection timed for a perfectly juxtaposed existence in a perfectly juxtaposed and ever evolving state of reality.

In the show, staged this morning, the 18 th January 2022 in Tokyo, Kawakubo’s nomads came out slowly pacing the runway to a sound track by producer and longtime COMME des GARÇONS collaborator, ‘OVERWERK’, setting the scene for what was to be an ingenious mix of colors, textures and fabrics forming a perfectly conceived collection of tailcoats, mismatched, unfinished seams, and blanket style tops, dresses and shirts that lent an almost ‘Henry Miller’s Paris’ kind of quality to the looks. The Miller’s Paris of the 1920’s, a Paris full of lost souls and city wanderers, belonging nowhere and to no one for more than the night in question.

There were collarless button down shirts, jackets which splayed open at the waist, dress coats and tailoring, all fashioned in bubblegum pink, sizzling lime green and patchwork multi-colored felt. Hemlines were typically elongated and exaggerated, with surprise leopard print satin making an appearance and a stand-out flapper-style, fringed two-piece that came paired with an electric blue dress coat. A perforated leather suit was another highlight look. And all the models wore hats: over stated, amplified, hats.

The collection also featured collector worthy shoe collaborations with George Cox, based on designs by iconic British shoe designer John Moore, ‘GEORGE COX X COMME DES GARÇONS X JOHN MOORE REIMAGINED’ and also with Nike, putting a CDG spin on the emblematic Nike Air Max 97. Tredding the nomad path has never been more appealing…

Discover the full looks below and more at comme-des-garcons.com