The Fall 2006 Comme des Garçons Collection That Still Haunts My Dreams

“What is in front, what one shows, is not necessarily what is behind,” said Rei Kawakubo of her fall 2006 collection worn here by (from left), Lisa Cant, Sasha Pivovarova, and Gemma Ward. Photographed by Irving Penn, Vogue, September 2006

Exactly 100 years ago today, Universal Pictures released The Phantom of the Opera, the silent film adaptation of Gaston Leroux’s 1910 Gothic novel of the same name. “The story, in brief,” wrote a journalist at the time, “tells of a strange creature of darkness, with the gifts of a god and the face of a monster, whose strangely warped soul selects a little opera singer as the medium by which to even a score, supposedly owed him by the world.” He was a monster with mommy issues who hid a face his mother couldn’t love under a mask. In return for giving