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Martin Margiela 1989

Margiela grey wool jersey sweater with inverted darts, fw 1989
Margiela grey wool jersey sweater with inverted darts, fw 1989

Margiela grey wool jersey sweater with inverted darts, fw 1989

By Maison Martin Margiela

Located in London, GB

▪ Margiela grey wool jersey sweater ▪ 100% Wool ▪ Inverted darts and seams ▪ Scoop neckline ▪ FR 40 - UK 12 ▪ Fall-Winter 1989

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Giacca da collezione Maison Margiela
Giacca da collezione Maison Margiela

Giacca da collezione Maison Margiela

By Maison Martin Margiela

Located in Basaluzzo, IT

Giacca in cotone Maison Martin Margiela da collezione. Taglia 46 vestibilità piccola Chiusura doppio bottone automatico, profili di n tessuto e particolare polso sqovrapposto Misure:...

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1994 / 1989 Martin Margiela First Runway Collection  Reissue Jacket
1994 / 1989 Martin Margiela First Runway Collection  Reissue Jacket

1994 / 1989 Martin Margiela First Runway Collection Reissue Jacket

By Maison Martin Margiela

Located in Toronto, ON

Vintage Spring Summer 1989 Martin Margiela jacket from the label's first runway collection.

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Gilet Maison Martin Margiela
Gilet Maison Martin Margiela

Gilet Maison Martin Margiela

By Maison Martin Margiela

Located in Basaluzzo, IT

Camicetta Maison Martin Margiela della collezione “Old Margiela” etichetta bianca tipica delle prime creazioni dello stilista Chiusura con laccetto, taglia 42, etichetta lavaggio e ...

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Top Martin Margiela da collezione
Top Martin Margiela da collezione

Top Martin Margiela da collezione

By Martin Margiella, Maison Martin Margiela

Located in Basaluzzo, IT

Top vintage Old Margiela in perfette condizioni. Bianco, con simboli carte d giocoEtichetta bianca da collezione Il colletto si può mettere in svariati modi Taglia 44 Misure: spa...

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Margiela trompe-l'œil tattoo mesh top, Spring-Summer 1989
Margiela trompe-l'œil tattoo mesh top, Spring-Summer 1989

Margiela trompe-l'œil tattoo mesh top, Spring-Summer 1989

By Maison Martin Margiela

Located in London, GB

Margiela Spring-Summer 1989 trompe-l'œil tattoo mesh top * collectors item, from Martin Margiela's first collection

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MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA Vintage AW1989 grey pinstripe silk back long vest M
MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA Vintage AW1989 grey pinstripe silk back long vest M

MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA Vintage AW1989 grey pinstripe silk back long vest M

By Maison Martin Margiela

Located in Hong Kong, NT

MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA FROM THE FALL WINTER 1989-1990 COLLECTION, MARTIN MARGIELA'S 2ND COLLECTION.

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Gonna Maison Margiela collezione 1995
Gonna Maison Margiela collezione 1995

Gonna Maison Margiela collezione 1995

By Maison Martin Margiela

Located in Basaluzzo, IT

Gonna midi Martin Margiela da collezione nera in raso. Collection printemps ete 1995 Elastico in vita, modello svasato Misure: vita 35cm, fianchi 53cm, lunghezza 80cm

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Hermès jacket 'Christophe Colomb découvre l'Amérique' by Martin Margiela 1998s
Hermès jacket 'Christophe Colomb découvre l'Amérique' by Martin Margiela 1998s

Hermès jacket 'Christophe Colomb découvre l'Amérique' by Martin Margiela 1998s

By Hermès

Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR

HERMÈS - A Collection circa 1998/1999, under the artistic direction of Martin Margiela. Reversible mid-length jacket ornamented with an adjustable braid at the waist, both sides made...

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Martin Margiela tulle waistcoat made from a 1950s ballgown, ss 1991
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Martin Margiela tulle waistcoat made from a 1950s ballgown, ss 1991

By Maison Martin Margiela

Located in London, GB

Samson, Alexandre, THE WOMEN'S COLLECTIONS 1989-2009 - Martin Margiela. New York, Rizzoli Electa, 2018 ▪ All rips, holes and stains should not be considered flaws as they were inten...

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Maison Martin Margiela Spring 1989 Trompe-l'œil Tattoo Mesh Top
Maison Martin Margiela Spring 1989 Trompe-l'œil Tattoo Mesh Top

Maison Martin Margiela Spring 1989 Trompe-l'œil Tattoo Mesh Top

By Maison Martin Margiela

Located in San Diego, CA

Sheer top in mesh adorned with tribal tattoo motifs from French Polynesia. Designed from Martin's first and historic runway show in 1989 and re-visited for his spring 1994 "Retrospec...

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Martin Margiela Beige Cotton Jacket Coat Show Piece A/W1989
Martin Margiela Beige Cotton Jacket Coat Show Piece A/W1989

Martin Margiela Beige Cotton Jacket Coat Show Piece A/W1989

By Maison Martin Margiela

Located in Berlin, DE

Maison Martin Margiela one of a kind jacket coat. Actual show piece from collection 1989 / AW 1994.

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Martin Margiela Vintage Tattoo Top SS 89, Sz. S
Martin Margiela Vintage Tattoo Top SS 89, Sz. S

Martin Margiela Vintage Tattoo Top SS 89, Sz. S

By Maison Martin Margiela

Located in Berlin, DE

Top is printed with the now iconic tattoo print in polyamide stretch mesh. This top was meant as a layering piece to give the iilluson of body tattoo's. This item is from the very fi...

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Martin Margiela 1989 For Sale on 1stDibs

Surely you’ll find the exact vintage or contemporary martin margiela 1989 you’re seeking on 1stDibs — we’ve got a vast assortment for sale. If you’re looking for an option in black and you’re unable to find the right fit, there are plenty of variations in brown and more. You’re likely to find the perfect martin margiela 1989 among the distinctive accessories we have available, which includes versions made as long ago as the 20th Century as well as those produced as recently as the 21st Century. Making an accessory such as this has likely been a part of the legacy of many fashion designers, but those produced by Maison Martin Margiela, Christian Dior and Claude Montana are consistently popular. If you’re browsing our inventory for these accessories, you’ll find that many are available today for women, but there are still pieces to choose from for men and unisex.

How Much is a Martin Margiela 1989?

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Maison Martin Margiela for sale on 1stDibs

Belgian designer Martin Margiela (b. 1957) — whose life, career, and designs for handbags, clothing and shoes have become cult-collector obsessions — pushed those who attended his shows outside their comfort zones. In the years following the 1988 debut of Maison Martin Margiela, he toyed with creative and aesthetic paradoxes that persist in fashion today.

Consider the Spring/Summer 2001 shirt patchworked from vintage clothing labels, or his famous corset dresses made from tailoring dummies, from his Fall/Winter 1997 line. Or his oversize collection for Fall/Winter 2000. In 1992, Margiela told Dépêche Mode magazine, “My clothes appeal to women of a certain mindset rather than of a specific age or physique.”

Born in Genk, Belgium, in 1957, Margiela knew he wanted to be a fashion designer after catching glimpses of Parisian fashion on TV as a child. Although his parents discouraged this career choice as an oddly funny aspiration, Margiela enrolled in the fashion program of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. There, he befriended and graduated a year ahead of the Antwerp Six — the acclaimed group of Belgian fashion designers comprising Dries Van Noten, Walter Van Beirendonck, Ann Demeulemeester, Marina Yee, Dirk Bikkembergs and Dirk Van Saene.

Like many of his contemporaries in the 1980s, Margiela understood Paris fashion but felt a deep resonance with the deconstructed beauty espoused by Japanese designers Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo, of Comme des Garçons. Margiela’s fascination with Japan influenced many of his earliest collections and designs, from a dress pieced together from broken plates to his iconic Tabi boots, inspired by the split-toe Japanese worker’s shoe, which dates back to the 15th century.

Margiela decided to launch his own line while working for renowned Paris designer Jean Paul Gaultier. With Belgian designer Jenny Meirens, Margiela established Maison Martin Margiela in the French capital in 1988. 

Margiela’s debut show was nothing short of spectacular. Set in a packed Café de la Gare in the still-seedy Marais district, it was also scandalous to the Parisian fashion set of the time. The designer tore up the conventions of contemporary couture presentations, most notably having his models, plucked from the streets and wearing ink-blotted Tabis, wend their way through the crowd.

The show redefined the concept of the runway in a way that would later inspire such designers as Alexander McQueen and Demna Gvasalia.

While the notoriously private designer retired from fashion in 2009, for many Maison Martin Margiela collectors, his pieces capture the irreverence of the postwar, post-punk late 1980s and ’90s. Katy Rodriguez, cofounder of the cult vintage fashion shop Resurrection, is among those who felt a connection to Margiela’s clothing in the subliminal challenges it posed to the time’s beauty norms.

“Growing up in San Francisco and coming out of the end of punk rock, not wanting to be objectified, not wanting to be seen as a sexual object, not wanting your value to be just because you’re pretty — all those clothes played into all of that,” she says. “It really was a reflection of the kind of world the young people I knew at the time wanted to live in.”

John Galliano was named creative director at the house in 2014 and it rebranded as Maison Margiela in 2015.

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