Martin Margiela : collections femme 1989-2009

Book published on the occasion of the exhibition "Margiela / Galliera, 1989-2009" presented at the Palais Galliera from March 3 to July 15, 2018. Under the artistic direction of Martin Margiela, this book lists and develops each of the designer's fashion shows during his twenty years of activity.
Martin Margiela: major player in contemporary fashion. Graduate of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, fashion section, the only Belgian designer to settle in Paris. First collection spring-summer 1989, last collection spring-summer 2009. By desire of anonymity and to preserve his private life, he chooses to show only his creations, scratched with a virgin label. Perceived as "destroy", then "minimalist" and finally "conceptual", questions the fashion system, from its conception to its use, by its "handmade" line of recovered and diverted clothing, and by unconventional presentations.
Attracted by what fashion has always hidden, erects liners and manufacturing steps to the rank of clothing. A marked taste for the passage of time and the differences in scale at the origin of reference collections: identical reproductions of antique pieces, enlarged dolls' closets on a human scale and XXXXL models.
A chronicle, both complete and personal, of the influence of this creator on the history of fashion.