Comme des Garçons and the Inexorable Power of Black

Black, as a colour, is powerful. Well, to begin with, it isn’t a colour at all, really – it’s a shadow, an absence, the result of the eye perceiving nothingness. Which sounds a little Jean-Paul Sartre, who incidentally wore a lot of black. Yet, for nothing, black is everything – a colour of seriousness and sobriety, of religious piety, of Catholic orders, nun’s habits, ultra-orthodoxy. Yet also of rebellion, punks as well as priests, of militant extremists, paid bills, Queen Victoriahellip; read more raquo; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; View Gallery (27 images)nbsp;