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Martin Margiela's memoirs: the landmark auction set to make history

This summer, on July 9 at 2pm CEST, a historic auction for the fashion world will take place in Paris. For the first time, Martin Margiela, founder of Maison Margiela, is partnering with auctioneers to organise the sale of his personal archives. The date is already shaping up to be a major event for numerous collectors and enthusiasts. The sale,...

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Inside Martin Margiela’s solo exhibition at Lafayette Anticipations

For his first-ever solo show, designer and artist Martin Margiela presents over 20 installations, sculptures, paintings and films in a headline exhibition at Lafayette Anticipations, Paris. Presented for the first time to the public, Margiela’s artworks are labyrinthed through a myriad of immersive spaces composed to highlight the creator’s...

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Fashion critic Suzy Menkes and her 3 most favorite runway shows.

SHOWstudio has invited Suzy Menkes, fashion critic, journalist and editor at Vogue to reveal her top three catwalk shows for a series of videos called Narrated Catwalk. Lumps and Bumps (SS 97) by Comme des Garçons, Black and White (SS 93) by Maison Martin Margiela and Christian Lacroix’s Haute Couture (AW 89) commented with Suzy’s passion and...

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Video: official trailer for the documentary Martin Margiela: In His Own Words

Check out the official trailer of the documentary mode Martin Margiela: In His Own Words u> . The documentary focuses on the first creative expressions Margiela. The Margiela mother drawings and sketches saved from her son. The Barbie dolls of his youth, which he made a copy of an Yves Saint Laurent blazer, kept them. P> The Belgian designer...

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Vetements taps Nina Nitsche, key Martin Margiela Collaborator

London - Nina Nitsche, the long-term first assistant and former successor to Martin Margiela, has left Maison Margiela after close to two decades to take up the design reins at Vetements. Nitsche has been appointed Vetements Collection Director, according to reports from WWD, after working under the wing of John Galliano. In her new role,...

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Paris Fashion Week: Day 4

Loewe's London-based creative director Jonathan Anderson looked to the 80s for inspiration as he had done with his own namesake label during London Fashion Week last month. In Paris he showed modernist geometric prints patterned across dresses layered over metallic trousers. Leather jackets, a Loewe staple, came in classic slouchy silhouettes...

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Galliano to debut Margiela couture in London

Maison Martin Margiela is expected to show its Spring/Summer 2015 couture collection in London at the end of London Collections: Men this January. The show will mark John Galliano's catwalk debut for the Margiela brand, and sources have cited Galliano wanted to show the collection in London first, the city that launched his career after...

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Maison Martin Margiela goes couture

The prestigious French couture governing body The Commission de Classement Couture Création in Paris have accepted Maison Martin Margiela into the world of couture. Also admitted was designer Alexis Mabille. Couture status is determined by the numbers of looks shown; the size of the atelier; the standard of bespoke and handmade pieces; and...