f beauty were a rulebook, it’s been consistently - insistently - torn up by Rei Kawakubo, founder of Comme des Garçons. It is not just her clothing designs that have challenged and pushed the boundaries of the rules of attraction - her ideas of beauty through cosmetics have been equally radical. She has collaborated with hair and make-up artists including Pat McGrath and Stephane Marais, Christiaan and Julien d’Ys. Frequently, Kawakubo only provides a single inspirational word to work from, one that’s intangible and often extreme. And since the label’s first catwalk show, held in Paris in 1981,
