Is Clothing Art?

More than two decades ago, avant-garde clothes designer Rei Kawakubo opened a groundbreaking retail space for her Comme des Garcons line in New York’s Soho, which was then a name still synonymous with the city’s thriving art world. The bright, minimal, polished-cement space signaled “gallery” instead of shop; the store’s design in fact predicted the industrial-luxury look of many galleries to come—galleries, of course, being shops that sell art. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.