MARTIN MARGIELA x OPENING CEREMONY

... puisque nous avons tous une certaine faiblesse pour des objets réalisés en collaboration par deux marques ou plus, voici un petit mot sur la collection dont on nous a parlé hier à New York : la ligne MM6 Maison Martin Margiela crééra, tout comme les sœurs Rodarte, une collection-capsule pour OPENING CEREMONY à New York. Voici quelques images. Et au cas où vous vous demanderiez, il y a même un petit lien avec la notice d'hier, car MICHAELA BÜRGER, elle aussi, est représentée (lire : vendue) par Opening Ceremony. Eh ben, en meilleure compagnie, ne diriez-vous pas ? ...


... just a quick word, or even, only some images from the collaboration that was announced yesterday for fall 2011: MM6 MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA will create a capsule collection for New York-based retailer Opening Ceremony (and thus follow in the footsteps of the Rodarte sisters...). Well, looking forward to that we are, aren't we? And, lest you should wonder, there is even a cross-reference to my last blog post, as Austrian-French designer Michaela Bürger is also represented by OC ...


... qualche parola oppure meglio, qualche immagine rinviando all'ultima collaborazione nel mondo della moda di cui ci hanno parlato ieri a New York. MM6 Maison Martin Margiela realizzera per il store new-yorkese OPENING CEREMONY una piccola collezione speciale venduta a partire dall'autunno che viene (per ora, prepariamoci per l'estate, cosa vi pare?). E poi, solo per indicarvelo, questa informazione e anche in qualche modo legata all'ultimo messaggio che ho messo su questo blog, siccome anche il marchio Michaela Bürger è rappresentato da OC. Troppo perfetto, no? ...

HAIRY STUFF

... I recently visited the "Design in Vienna" exhibition that's currently on at Wien Museum (until Jan. 9, 2011), and I must say - these hairy little pieces of furniture would fit in ever so perfectly with any given Maison Martin Margiela collection.


They were designed by Croatian-born designer Dejana Kabiljo, and manoeuver along the narrow frontier that separates design and experimental art...

that was part of my MMM déjà-vu...

MMM GLOBAL SHOPPING

... just in (in my mailbox, and that of seven trezillion other people I guess) - Maison Martin Margiela goes even more online than it is already, the imminent opening of an e-shop will make it possible for internet-equipped mountain people to acquire their necessary bucket full of ultimate design items.


Open 24/7 from October 1st on www.martinmargiela.com - that's the way we like it ...

SCARE me that CROW

Like a joke, really - Stéphane Rolland (left) and Maison Martin Margiela contributed to the scarecrow installation in Palais Royal in July upon invitation by Masters of Linen.

... delay, delay, what a delay: when I was in Paris for the fall 2010 Haute Couture shows, *this* (lack of words?) was going on in Palais Royal. Scarecrows, created (or decorated) by fashion designers (eg. Maison Martin Margiela, Mr. "little black dress" Didier Ludot, Stéphane Rolland, Roberto Cavalli).

I think the godmother of all bloggers, you know, the lady with the black veil (how embarrassing: I was seated next to her at Gaultier couture. At a certain point, everyone got up to watch Dita vT perform - and the lady in black actually sat down before me. Stupid little me forgot to check whether the veil had come to lie on my chair when I sat down again. Sure enough, it had. I'll leave it to your imagination just *what* happened when the veiled lady tried to get up *before* I did...), already blogged about this back then.

What do you consider to be more scary: Didier Ludot's scarecrow dress, or Roberto Cavalli's ugly-as-ever, hideous little thingy?

Still, I would like to proudly share with you my images, too. Asking myself, actually, whether creating fashion for scarecrows (the idea alone seems like a joke to me! aren't there better ways of stageing the innovative nature of linen and hemp? no?? isn't that an absurd mise en scène of the eco/alternative fashion cliché??? scarecrows????) isn't what some representatives of the floppy and shabby look do anyhow ...

THESE BOOTS ARE MADE FOR ...

... courtesy of MMM

... that's how quick things can go, sometimes - just a few days ago, on the other side of the Channel, 20 years Maison Martin Margiela, the exhibition.

And today, the very intimate, reduced presentation of MMM's Artisanal collection in the studio ("artisanal" is not an empty promise, apparently) of the MMM immeuble in Paris.

Très animal, very subdued, many hours of work (all of which are meticulously listed in the press release - just as they were in the exhibition captions). Very conceptual and yet totally wearable garments. A bit over the top, but so Viennese in a way (people who I ask what strikes them about Vienna's fashion scene when they go there usually mention the tremendous amount of very well-dressed, sometimes to the point of looking eccentric, old ladies - well there'll be plenty of the raw material that these boots were made from in their cupboard...) - these biker boots made from customised reptile leather handbags ...

MMM in LHR

... had a wonderfully packed, kind of crazy, exciting LONDON day today and realised again to what extent I adore this marvellous, cosmopolitan metropolis ...


... and between my second and my third appointment today squeezed in a visit of the Maison Martin Margiela '20' exhibition at Somerset House, where, before being told by a nice young lady that I was not allowed to "take photographs of any (?) kind", I took these images ...

an arrangement of MMM's "tabi" boots from various seasons - all in silver

... and I must say, the exhibition - as can be expected with this kind of monothematic show - is a true hommage to the work and philosophy and aesthetics of MMM, and actually, one realises just how deep and great the impact of the outstandingly intricate design work of this fashion house has been throughout the past 20 year.

a selection from 20 years of shoulder-shapes, complete with pads and hoods and other interesting details

I particularly loved the videos sporting the "personal wardrobe" of three individuals, but I entered that room when I was already aware of and obeying the "no photo" policy of the exhibition (taking into consideration MM's shying away from publicity, that's all too logical, in a way).

Martin Margiela on board or not, like countless other friends of fashion I believe that MMM contributed to shaping contemporary avantgarde fashion as we see it, in Paris, in London, and beyond that. So I'd say, if you pass through London this summer, do give it a try...