Martin Margiela: The Women's Collections 1989-2009 (Book) | Fashion Book

Timed to coincide with a major exhibition, this volume revisits the years during which celebrated designer Martin Margiela achieved the status as one of the most important designers at work today. One of the "Antwerp group of six" who changed the face of contemporary fashion, Margiela created 41 runway shows between 1989 and 2009 which promoted a unique vision of understated luxury -- monochromes, oversize volumes, and his signature "constructed-deconstructed"

• Format: Book
• Language: English

Keywords: fashion

Book details

• Author: Alexandre Samson, Introduction by Olivier Saillard
• Publisher: RIZZOLI ELECTA
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 162
• Publication date: 10/11/2018
• ISBN: 9780847864256

Synopsis

Martin Margiela: The Women's Collections 1989-2009 (Book) | Fashion Book by Alexandre Samson, Introduction by Olivier Saillard is a hardcover book from RIZZOLI ELECTA. Published on the occasion of the first retrospective exhibition ever of twenty years of designs by Margiela - the book will also benefit from the fact that a second exhibition on the designers years at Hermes is to open at Les Arts Decoratifs and run for most of the year Very authoritative documentation of 20 years and 41 fashion shows created by Martin Margiela, one of the most celebrated and enigmatic deisgners of the present day. Every detail will be catalogued down to the music selection and the spaces chosen for each show - a must have for design students, collectors, as well as fashionistas. The author is an up and coming fashion curator and expert, and contributor Olivier Saillard is a seminal intellectual figure and fashion taste maker whose previous books have a solid sales track