She speaks! Fifty years in, Comme des Garçons’ enigmatic deity has a lot to say about what drives her, the days when retailers took chances, and how one-plus-one can sometimes equal a glorious three. And you and she have something in common: Work is a grind.

Reference Berlin, a new 24-hour festival for fashion, music and art that tries to capture the city’s creative allure opened with much ado on Saturday noon.

Gosha Rubchinskiy’s latest collaboration with Diesel bows on Saturday at a pop-up in Berlin.

The DJ is popular with the fashion crowd, and attracts huge audiences worldwide for her sets.

After receiving the Isamu Noguchi Award at the museum’s Spring Benefit, Kawakubo engaged in a Q&A with director Brett Littman.

The Comme des Garçons designer will receive the Isamu Noguchi Award at the museum named, like the honor, for the Japanese-American artist.

Do you remember these Met Gala red carpet moments?

Japanese designer Kei Ninomiya, who learned his craft at Comme des Garçons, weaved leather biker jackets into what looked like round wicker cages.

Beneath the threatening rubber armor and executioner’s hoods, one could discern the baseline of real clothes in the latest renditions of Rei Kawakubo’s brilliantly inventive shapes and materials mixes.

The new Soho store stocks Supreme, the world’s only Nuptse Sample Wolf Fur North Face jacket, and plans to carry Birkin bags, too.

Designer Ryuhei Oomaru has worked at Comme des Garçons and Donna Karan and has his own pattern-making studio.

The retailer’s aesthetic is minimal, but not stark, with a bit of an edge.

A doll-like form became a leitmotif for the season.

For his debut show in Paris, Fumito Ganryu went back to basics – as in the kind of clothes that can be found in every wardrobe.

The designer asked nine marquee talents to submit an iconic design fragment, which she transposed into new garments and accessories.