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  • Avantster
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    • Sep 2006
    • 1983

    Martin Margiela Exhibition at MoMu Antwerp



    PARIS, Jun 20, 2008 / FW/ ? Has it been 20 years already? Martin
    Margiela, a darling of the fashion crowd for his high concept designs
    and also enjoying commercial success with both is menswear and
    womenswear line, celebrates 20 years of fashion with a unique
    exhibition at the Antwerp Mode Museum (Fashion Museum) slated from Sep
    12,2008 thru Feb 8, 2009.</p>


    Conceived in close collaboration with Maison Martin Margiela, the
    exhibition which is simply entitled ?MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA, looks
    deeply into the different themes and concepts that the designer has
    explored during the 20 years of its various collections, fashion shows,
    presentations and events worldwide, design of its shops and offices,
    exceptional house style and communications policy.</p>


    Not
    your traditional retrospective, (after all, Martin Margiela was never
    the traditionalist), the Paris-based designer also has created
    exclusively for this exhibition several limited-edition items that will
    be on sale during the entire exhibition at the Fashion Museum reception
    desk. A catalogue in English will accompany the exhibition.</p>


    In October 1988, after graduating from the fashion department of the
    Antwerp Academy and working as an assistant for Jean-Paul Gaultier,
    Martin Margiela and Jenny Meirens established Maison Martin Margiela.</p>


    Their first pioneering fashion show followed in October of that same
    year. Margiela?s was a radically new visual language, with a silhouette
    ? long, with strikingly narrow shoulders ? that diametrically opposed
    the power dressing of the 1980s. He furthermore declines public
    appearances.</p>


    Early in his career, Margiela emphatically decided to let his
    fashion speak for itself. All interviews are consistently given in the
    name of the Maison as a whole and no photographs of the designer are
    distributed ? a sharp reaction against the star status that dominated
    the fashion scene of the 1980s and 1990s.</p>


    Maison Martin Margiela is especially known for its deconstructivist
    approach and its use of secondhand materials or materials with low
    commercial value. Its entire oeuvre is characterized by an exceptional
    combination of classic tailoring and conceptual thinking.</p>


    Margiela shows the inside of a clothing item, exposes its
    construction and focuses on that which fashion anxiously tries to
    conceal. Unraveling the grammar of clothing, Maison Martin Margiela
    reveals the strategies of the fashion system as it constructs something
    radically new. The working method produces an analysis of the system
    that underlies fashion and is followed through in the many varied
    aspects of the fashion house.</p>


    MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA EXHIBIT

    Dates: Friday, September 12, 2008, through Sunday, February 8, 2009

    Time: Tuesdays through Sundays from 10AM to 6PM

    Where: MOMU - Fashion Museum Province of Antwerp

    Nationalestraat 28, 2000 Antwerp

    Tel: +32 (0)3 470 27 70

    Fax: +32 (0)3 470 27 71

    Website: www.momu.be
    </p>
    let us raise a toast to ancient cotton, rotten voile, gloomy silk, slick carf, decayed goat, inflamed ram, sooty nelton, stifling silk, lazy sheep, bone-dry broad & skinny baffalo.
  • Avantster
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    • Sep 2006
    • 1983

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    Re: Martin Margiela Exhibition at MoMu Antwerp

    let us raise a toast to ancient cotton, rotten voile, gloomy silk, slick carf, decayed goat, inflamed ram, sooty nelton, stifling silk, lazy sheep, bone-dry broad & skinny baffalo.

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    • Faust
      kitsch killer
      • Sep 2006
      • 37852

      #3
      Re: Martin Margiela Exhibition at MoMu Antwerp

      Thanks Avantster! Momu is awesome - best fashion museum.
      Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

      StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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      • Avantster
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        • Sep 2006
        • 1983

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        Re: Martin Margiela Exhibition at MoMu Antwerp

        Definitely! This has got me thinking about going back to Antwerp again, already. [86]
        let us raise a toast to ancient cotton, rotten voile, gloomy silk, slick carf, decayed goat, inflamed ram, sooty nelton, stifling silk, lazy sheep, bone-dry broad & skinny baffalo.

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        • DHC
          Senior Member
          • Jul 2007
          • 2155

          #5
          Anyone hit this up yet?
          Originally posted by Faust
          fuck you, i don't have an attitude problem.

          Sartorialoft

          "She is very ninja, no?" ~Peter Jevnikar

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          • Faust
            kitsch killer
            • Sep 2006
            • 37852

            #6
            Originally posted by DHC View Post
            Anyone hit this up yet?
            My friends are going to be there in a week, but they are not fashion people. They will buy me the catalogue though.
            Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

            StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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            • Fuuma
              Senior Member
              • Sep 2006
              • 4050

              #7
              I'll probably go, will post review.
              Selling CCP, Harnden, Raf, Rick etc.
              http://www.stylezeitgeist.com/forums...me-other-stuff

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              • DHC
                Senior Member
                • Jul 2007
                • 2155

                #8
                Originally posted by Faust View Post
                My friends are going to be there in a week, but they are not fashion people. They will buy me the catalogue though.
                sweet! I'm sure they'll enjoy the exhibit. I think it's to their advantage that they are not fashion people. I hear it can be a tad boring if one is all too familiar with his work.

                Looking forward to your review Fuuma.
                Originally posted by Faust
                fuck you, i don't have an attitude problem.

                Sartorialoft

                "She is very ninja, no?" ~Peter Jevnikar

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                • Faust
                  kitsch killer
                  • Sep 2006
                  • 37852

                  #9
                  Originally posted by DHC View Post
                  sweet! I'm sure they'll enjoy the exhibit. I think it's to their advantage that they are not fashion people. I hear it can be a tad boring if one is all too familiar with his work.

                  Looking forward to your review Fuuma.
                  Actually I think they are just going to buy the book, lol.
                  Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

                  StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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                  • Fuuma
                    Senior Member
                    • Sep 2006
                    • 4050

                    #10
                    Originally posted by DHC View Post
                    sweet! I'm sure they'll enjoy the exhibit. I think it's to their advantage that they are not fashion people. I hear it can be a tad boring if one is all too familiar with his work.

                    Looking forward to your review Fuuma.
                    I also got the recent Margiela book and the Branquinho catalogue exhibit so I'll be able to see if the MMM catalogue is worth it.
                    Selling CCP, Harnden, Raf, Rick etc.
                    http://www.stylezeitgeist.com/forums...me-other-stuff

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                    • Faust
                      kitsch killer
                      • Sep 2006
                      • 37852

                      #11
                      I got the catalogue yesterday. I wasn't thrilled with it. It's not nearly as comprehensive as I expected it to be.
                      Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

                      StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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