Summer Reading to Fashionably Prepare You for Fall

She doesn't say much, she is notoriously stingy when it comes to giving interviews, so we can only surmise that Rei Kawakubo is a member of The Flat Earth Society, a bunch of people who believe that our planet resembles a pancake. Why else would she have shown a paper doll-worthy collection of seemingly two-dimensional drolleries for Comme des Garçons that nevertheless had the audience cheering and begging for the designer to come out and take the merest bow? (Did she oblige? Of course not.) To gear up for these avant-guard hijinks, bone up with Flat Earth: The History of an Infamous Idea by Christine Garwood.