Paris Fashion Week: Maison Martin Margiela

Tradition is a dirty word when you’re talking about the avant-garde. But Maison Martin Margiela’s intimate show last night at the Halle Freyssinet had something ultra traditional to it. Deconstructed bien sûr, but traditional all the same. Models sulked through pools of light around which the press sat on little wooden chairs from different periods. [...]

First scent from Maison Martin Margiela

The Maison Martin Margiela (now operating without its master, who departed sometime late last year) is about to launch their first ever perfume ‘untitled’, available exclusively at Colette from this coming Monday, and then via department stores in March, then everywhere else from 15 April.
55€, 30ml; 80€, 50ml; 100€, 75 ml.

MICHAEL STIPE FOR MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA

Considering Martin Margiela’s notoriously reclusive reputation it’s quite funny to imagine celebrity – even in the arty packaging of R.E.M.’s front man Michael Stipe – collaborating with Antwerp’s fabled and fortressed avant-garde prince. But in some whitewashed loft in Belgium or New York just such a meeting must have taken place, the proof being [...]

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