Photos courtesy of CDG SIX 1/4 (1997) Comme De Garçons' Spring Summer 1997 womenswear collection "Body Meets Dress/Dress Meets Body" is one of the most iconic examples of avant garde conceptual fashion. It is widely interpreted as an exploration of the grotesque female body and a parody of patriarchal beauty standards. It can be analyzed through a feminist theoretical lens which incorporates Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the grotesque body and Julia Kristeva's theory of the abject. CDG SS97 is...