Comme des Garcons Play is a collaboration between legendary Japanese designer Rei Kawakubo and renowned New York graphic and textile designer Filip Pagowski. Play is a fun and accessible incarnation of Comme des Garcons, recognized by Pagowski’s endearing bug-eyed heart logo. The red heart is the most familiar, but you’ll occasionally see its green and black cousins. Pagowski’s eccentric logo fits Kawakubo’s penchant for turning something strange into something beautiful and coveted.

Comme des Garcons Play used to be carried only at Comme des Garcons’ famous guerrilla stores (which are open just 12 months before closing up and moving to a new city), so we are thrilled to be able to offer it to you in men’s and women’s.

If you didn’t know already, Rei Kawakubo is one of the most influential designers of our time. In the early ’80s, Kawakubo introduced the world to Japanese avant-garde—an “anti-fashion” aesthetic that defied precedent by using asymmetrical silhouettes with tattered fabrics, raw edges, distressed seams and oddly placed holes in monochromatic black, grey and white. Intentionally shabby, it was received by some as an apocalyptic glimpse. Although her unique perspective was dismissively labeled “Hiroshima chic,” Kawakubo’s conspicuous divergence from long-standing western design and construction canons redefined standards of beauty and inspired an army of today’s most innovative designers, including Martin Margiela and Ann Demeulemeester.