A collection of reviews from writer and broadcaster Deyan Sudjic, the former director of the Design Museum in London. These explore Rei Kawakubo’s close links to architecture, and how her design language not only permeated fashion, but also design, furniture and her distinctive shop interiors. The book features a biography, multiple interviews and fashion plates, often drawing parallels between Kawakubo and Le Corbusier; Sudjic also shadowed the elusive designer behind the scenes of some of her Paris shows, and visited Japanese textile mills and cutting rooms during his research. This is the original English language version.