here & now

Gosha Rubchinskiy is one of the very few Russian designers who has managed to cross the Iron Curtain and make a name for himself in the West; and with Comme des Garçons taking charge of production and international distribution, you’re likely to hear a lot more of him in the years to come. Unashamedly Russian and drawing heavily on the country’s troubled past and present – but never in a picturesque, obvious way – Rubchinskiy is building an aesthetic that is referring to street wear as much as to clean high end design, all put to great effect in his own photographs, which are beautifully Slavic in their own peculiar way. But if in Berlin, judge for yourself tonight at the opening of a small exhibition of Gosha’s photographs at the Comme des Garçons Black Shop in Mitte.

Comme des Garçons Black Shop
Linienstrasse 115
10115 Berlin