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COMME des GARÇONS has revived Six, Rei Kawakubo’s short-lived magazine, with a print edition combining archival material and new work. The revival also includes installations in Tokyo, Paris and London, plus a limited collection of 12 T-shirts featuring magazine artwork.
COMME des GARÇONS has revived Six, Rei Kawakubo’s experimental magazine, with a new print edition, installations in Tokyo, Paris and London, and a limited collection of 12 T-shirts. The project brings archival magazine material together with new work and places the publication’s imagery in the label’s stores during the Frieze period.
The new issue is the first in 35 years. It brings together six archival covers and pages from earlier issues with work by contemporary image-makers, according to the report. Kawakubo curated the material to reflect the magazine’s spirit. The print edition was sent as a mailer to selected clients in the cities hosting installations, Adrian Joffe, president of Comme des Garçons International, said.
The installations adapt the archival imagery to each site. At COMME des GARÇONS Aoyama in Tokyo and Dover Street Market Paris, pillars wrapped in pages from Six occupy parts of the stores. In London, a window display can be viewed from outside Dover Street Market, with a pillar presentation inside. The London installation is scheduled to remain on view until November 13.
A companion collection includes 12 T-shirts printed with selected artwork from the magazine. The limited-run items are available online and in person at Dover Street Market, according to the report. It does not give prices, quantities for each design or a final sale date for the collection.
Six Returns Beyond the Page
The revival puts a publication with a brief run back into circulation and makes its visual approach visible in physical spaces. Six appeared at a time when fashion imagery could extend into art, photography, film and architecture, rather than functioning only as a presentation of clothes. The installations and T-shirts carry that approach into current retail settings, while the print edition reconnects the project with its original medium.
For readers and visitors, access will vary. The new issue was mailed to selected clients in the cities with installations, so the report does not establish that it is available for general purchase. The store displays offer a public-facing way to encounter the archival images, while the T-shirts provide a limited commercial edition of selected artwork. The scale of distribution and the number of people who can obtain the magazine remain unreported.
Comme des Garçons Six magazine T-shirts
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The Magazine’s Eight-Issue Run
COMME des GARÇONS first published Six in 1988. The biannual magazine ended in 1991 after eight editions. It functioned as a conceptual lookbook, though only a few pages in each issue featured the brand’s clothing. Its subject matter and contributors reached across fashion and the wider image-making world.
Among the people whose work appeared in Six were Salvador Dalí, Robert Frank, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Peter Lindbergh, Issey Miyake and Yohji Yamamoto. The magazine’s title referred to a “sixth sense.” The first issue described it as a sense of the surreal and suggested that “flair” might be one aspect of it.
Kawakubo described the publication’s emphasis on images in a past statement: “High fashion has to have a mystery about it. This is the next step: visual representation of the collection, purely for image.” The quotation helps explain the magazine’s distance from a conventional product catalogue, but the new issue’s precise contents beyond the reported archival and contemporary work have not been detailed.
““High fashion has to have a mystery about it. This is the next step: visual representation of the collection, purely for image.””
— Rei Kawakubo, in a past statement quoted by Hypebeast
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Access and Edition Details
The report does not state whether the new print edition will be sold publicly, how many copies exist, or which contemporary image-makers contributed. It identifies the mailers as going to selected clients in the installation cities, but gives no criteria for selection. Prices, production quantities and the T-shirt sale end date are also not provided.
The announced locations are Tokyo, Paris and London, but no closing dates are given for the Aoyama or Paris installations. The report says the London display runs through November 13, 2026; it does not specify whether that date applies to both the window exhibition and the interior pillar presentation.
Dover Street Market Tokyo Paris London art display
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London Display Through November
The London installation at Dover Street Market is scheduled to remain on view through November 13, 2026, during Frieze London. The 12-piece T-shirt collection is available for a limited run online and in person at Dover Street Market. The report gives no further dates for the Tokyo or Paris displays, or for the end of T-shirt sales.
Further details about the print edition’s availability, the contributors to its new work and the duration of the other installations have not been announced in the source material. For now, the confirmed public opportunities are the store installations and the limited T-shirt release.
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Key Questions
What is Six?
Six was a biannual magazine published by COMME des GARÇONS from 1988 to 1991. It ran for eight issues and featured fashion alongside work connected to art, photography, film and design.
What is included in the revival?
The revival includes a new print edition combining six archival covers and pages with new work, installations in Tokyo, Paris and London, and 12 T-shirts featuring selected magazine artwork.
Can the new print edition be purchased?
The report says copies were mailed to selected clients in the cities with installations. It does not say whether the issue is available for general purchase.
Where can visitors see the installations?
The installations are at COMME des GARÇONS Aoyama in Tokyo, Dover Street Market Paris and Dover Street Market London. The London display is scheduled to run until November 13, 2026.
Where are the T-shirts available?
The limited 12-piece collection is available online and in person at Dover Street Market. The report does not specify prices or when sales will end.
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