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‘Untitled’ video by Maison Martin Margiela

kvdb — Sun, 02 May 2010 11:08:58 +0000

Maison Martin Margiela launched their first perfume earlier this year, ‘Untitled’, and here’s the official video presenting it.
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Paris Fashion Week: Maison Martin Margiela

m.hicks — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:40:43 +0000

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. It was very far from the stadium chill of some of today’s fashion mega-events. Of course, Margiela himself has officially left the house, so everyone has been anxious to see what the kingdom becomes without its king. Well, marvellous, actually. As always, Margiela is allergic to romance and whimsy and addicted to fine tailoring and that exploded detail that undermines your idea of accepted style. The design team behind the house have inherited the founder’s impatience for the kind of seasonal gimmicks (the Balmain shoulder, the bourgeois love affair) that make a collection feel cloying. The totem-pole headpieces in faux fur that tottered out at the end of the show (evening looks?) were captivating, and sure to pop up in gloss spreads from here to the Cleveland Plain, but the most innovative details were in the outsize waistlines and sheer drapery that showed a novel blend of strength and vulnerability.
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Maison Martin Margiela, 5 March, Halle Freyssinet

First scent from Maison Martin Margiela

kvdb — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:45:28 +0000

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

m.hicks — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:51:23 +0000

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 the ‘MS09′ limited-edition collection of 199 numbered, signed and wearable microcassette ’sculpturettes’ available now (for around 400 euros), to wear or to contemplate.
www.maisonmartinmargiela.com/