Between worlds

Japanese designer Rei Kawakubo's singular view of fashion is finally getting the mass recognition it so richly deserves

Rei Kawakubo clearly isn't Miuccia Prada, but in the countercultural ecosystem of fashion for the disenfranchised, the two bear remarkable similarities. Geography has seemingly dictated the impact of both.

Prada has been subject to an A to Z of academic rigor across the fashion campuses of Europe and America, and she been the subject of a Metropolitan Museum exhibition herself in tandem with Elsa Schiaparelli.