What was the title of the 2017 Met Gala exhibition celebrating Rei Kawakubo’s designs?

The 2017 Met Gala exhibition celebrating Rei Kawakubo’s designs was titled Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between.

The exhibition examined the work of Rei Kawakubo, founder of the Japanese fashion label Comme des Garçons. It focused on her interest in challenging conventional categories, including the boundaries between beautiful and strange, body and garment, and fashion and art.

The phrase “In-Between” reflected Kawakubo’s use of ambiguity and contradiction. Many of the displayed designs distorted familiar ideas about tailoring, proportion, gender, and the human silhouette. The presentation was notable because it centered on a living designer, a relatively uncommon choice for a major Costume Institute exhibition.

This title is separate from the 2019 exhibition Camp: Notes on Fashion and the 2018 exhibition Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.