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Maison Martin Margiela
Maison Martin Margiela
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Description for Maison Martin Margiela
Hardcover. Num Pages: 352 pages, 300 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AKB; WJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 337 x 254 x 41. Weight in Grams: 2986.
Graduating from Antwerp’s Royal Academy of Fine Arts in the 1980s, Martin Margiela (and his contemporaries in the Antwerp Six) transformed global fashion with his aggressive restatement of traditional fashion design and a polemical approach to luxury trends. Working first with the house of Gaultier, Margiela absorbed the radical design of Japanese deconstruction, making it wholly his own with the founding of his own label in 1988. Margiela propounds a singular, enigmatic look, moving beyond the recognizable tropes of deconstruction—a monochromatic palette, outsized garments, non-traditional fabrics, exposed seams, or roughly appliquéd details—to develop a fully considered worldview, one with ... Read more
Graduating from Antwerp’s Royal Academy of Fine Arts in the 1980s, Martin Margiela (and his contemporaries in the Antwerp Six) transformed global fashion with his aggressive restatement of traditional fashion design and a polemical approach to luxury trends. Working first with the house of Gaultier, Margiela absorbed the radical design of Japanese deconstruction, making it wholly his own with the founding of his own label in 1988. Margiela propounds a singular, enigmatic look, moving beyond the recognizable tropes of deconstruction—a monochromatic palette, outsized garments, non-traditional fabrics, exposed seams, or roughly appliquéd details—to develop a fully considered worldview, one with ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Rizzoli International Publications United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
3001g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780847831883
SKU
V9780847831883
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About Maison Martin Margiela
Martin Margiela, born in 1957 in Leuven, Belgium, is the principal designer of his own Paris-based fashion house.
Reviews for Maison Martin Margiela
The first book to document the work—from fashion and art to design and performance—of the Paris-based Belgian couturiere, one of the reigning luminaries of the current fashion scene.