Martin Margiela

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  • Martin Margiela is a fashion icon born in 1957 in Belgium. Margiela set-up Maison Martin Margiela in 1988, this brand has become world famous as has Martin Margiella himself. Famed as much for his fashion as his love of privacy, Margiela hasn't done a face to face interview since Maison Martin Margiela was established.

  • Life and Career

    Martin Margiela was born in Leuven, Belgium in 1957. At the age of 20, Margiela studied at the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts and graduated in 1979. in 1984, Margiela landed a prestigious role in Paris, France - working as a Design Assistant for Jean Paul Gaultier, he worked there until 1988. In that year Gaultier set-up Maison Martin Margiela again in Paris. Maison Martin Margiela still operates 21 years later and has stores all around the world.

  • Quotes

    You asked the right question! This has been part of our creative process since the beginning. From very early on, we came to the point where we realized that, in addition to our main line, we wanted to do something more than take our creative ideas and develop them through an industrialized process. That's why we launched our Artisanal line. Its concept was-and still is-to reconstruct new garments by using other garments or accessories, used or new. For example, one day we found a great stock of '50s ball gowns in a flea market. They were cut for the morphology of that epoch-extra-thin waists-and were absolutely unwearable 40 years later since proportions, as well as fashion, have changed so much over time. We decided to cut them, open them in the front, and tie them together with ribbons. In the end, we presented them worn over a T-shirt and a pair of jeans. At the time-it was around 1990-people were horrified and talked about our lack of respect for old garments. But for us, it was just the contrary: It was all about giving a new life to old and abandoned pieces, so they could be worn again in a different way. We've always loved this idea you're talking about: creating garments out of other designers', as part of an archaeology of fashion references. But did you know that Andy Warhol already did it in 1975? They were known as "composite dresses." Look how amazing it was! He went even as far as sewing all the labels together on the neck-brilliant! Speaking of archaeology, Michel Foucault said in The Archaeology of Knowledge, "I am no doubt not the only one who writes in order to have no face. Do not ask who I am, and do not ask me to remain the same: Leave it to our bureaucrats to see that our papers are in order." Considering we're signing this interview as Maison Martin Margiela and you are as Joseph Kosuth Studio, what do you think of this quote?http://www.interviewmagazine.com/fashion/maison-martin-margiela/2/

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