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Introduction
Rei Kawakubo made an entrance in the fashion scene in the 1980’s. The global fashion world that had thus far been dominated by mainly Western designers had to make room for a wave of Japanese designers, that brought with them new concepts of fashion.
In May this year (2019) Rei Kawakubo received the Noguchi Award, an award first introduced in 2014 to ‘‘recognize innovative artists following in Isamu Noguchi’s (famous Japanese American artist and landscape architect) footsteps by bridging Eastern and Western cultures’’ (Vogue).
After having accepted the award on the 2nd of May Rei Kawakubo stated: ‘‘I’m not an artist, and because of that I just wanted to say that it’s beyond my honor to receive this award, because I am not an artist.
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But I try, always, to come up with something new. Things that people have not seen, and I have gone this way for 50 years, and I’m very happy to be recognized for my achievement by receiving this award. Thank you.’’