Maison Martin Margiela

- Maison Martin Margiela golden yellow velvet halter neck backless breastplate - Sold by Skof.Archive - Designed by Martin Margiela - Semi-Couture Spring-Summer 1997 - Crushed velv...

With Belgian former couture-fashion designer Martin Margiela's original blank-white textural-cotton corner-sewn label from the early 1990s visible above the prominent circular knit h...

A/W 1999 Maison Martin Margiela deep rust color-way 'lining' long sleeve dress. Long sleeve midi dress created with interior lining of dress, with 'necklace' formed by loop tie that ...

1996 Martin Margiela brown knit crop top with tie back and metal ring neck Condition: Excellent Bust 24" , 18" waist, 21.5" length size XS / S

Martin Margiela makes generous use of trompe-l’oeil motifs in his collections. For his 1996 Spring-Summer "trompe l'oeil" (optical illusion) collection Margiela invited photographer friends to make black and white photographs of vintage garments and used these images as prints for lightweight summer garments. These Martin Margiela items are exceptionally rare, and collectors seldom part with them. A Martin Margiela exhibition wouldn't be complete without these famous "Trompe L'oeil" photo print dresses...

With the original hand-sewn off-white unbranded rectangular label of Paris-based Maison Martin Margiela, this asymmetrical plunging v-neck black jersey pullover gown was designed in 1994 by Belgium fashion-designer-cum-artist Martin Margiela. In his early deconstruction style, it partly appears to be a ruched halter dress that is positioned on a bias to add curves to shape the waist, while its open overlapping wrap skirt enables ample draping on one side that conceals a high slit from the waist down. Recalling the construction found in two of Martin Margiela's seminal collections--both the upcycled-split 1950s ballgowns of Spring/Summer 1991 and the draped "Stockman" garments of Spring/Summer 1997--this stretch-viscose dress is likewise a bodice with a split skirt, while its 3/4-length sleeves can recall Margiela's famous "shouldered arm bands" if worn with protruding breasts fully exposed. The top has a wide deep gapping chest or back, along with the option to position the looped "halter" cord that hangs from the torso in one of several ways by pulling over the head. For example, if the dress is worn "backwards" with the brand label resting on the upper chest, the cord from the ruching that is positioned in back can be pulled overhead and under the arms, which can secure the front shoulders of the top by pulling the loop overhead again in the other direction to rest on the back of the neck--like the Martin Margiela Spring/Summer 1997 "Stockman evening dress" in the museum collection of TheMet (see our pic of its smaller open-front black halter and half skirt with the neck strap worn this way.) No doubt the buyer will try more creative ways, too! You may be inspired by our other listing for arguably one of Martin Margiela's best Artisanal Line 0 pieces--a couture body harness--that, like his fashion manifesto, enables endless repurposing of button-down tops to create a plunging v-neckline with a distinct rolled collar. The Italian-size 42 dress...

Spring Summer 1999 wrap jersey dress with metal choker by Maison Martin Margiela. Detachable sleeves. Two buttons closure at back. The composition tag is missing, seems to be made o...

Spring Summer 1995 iconic and rare "Reproduction" of a 70's transparent negligé by Maison Martin Margiela. Buttons on the front. The composition tag is missing, seems to be made of ...

▪ Archival Margiela Artisanal Dress ▪ Creative Director: Martin Margiela ▪ Fall-Winter 2003 ▪ Sold by One of a Kind Archive ▪ Artisanal (Lin...

Spring Summer 1999 iconic and rare brown leather glove purse necklace by Maison Martin Margiela. The composition is 100% leather.

Spring Summer 1991 rare and iconic long jacket with anatomical pence by Maison Martin Margiela. Slit on back sleeves. Two pockets at front. The composition tag is missing, seems to b...

Spring Summer 1994 rare and iconic artisanal customized leather mini dress by Maison Martin Margiela. Made with a reversed vintage trench. String and buttons closure at back. The com...

A very rare piece from Martin Margiela from the iconic AW1998 Flat Collection. The team used the pattern pieces from the previous season as the basis for this concept, but with a sl...

Captured in a video still from his Fall/Winter 1992 collection fashion show in Paris, Martin Margiela uniquely upcycled the seam intersections from the crotch, dart or tuck on decon...

MAISON MARGIELA 1990s Vintage black wool felt back slit longline Cigarette coat FR38 M Reference: PYCN/A00095 Brand: Maison Margiela Designer: Martin M...

Maison Martin Margiela dressmaker bodice in Trompe-L'œil printed cotton featured on the spring 1999 runway in look eight adorned with hook-and-eye closures, number, and lettered with...

In 1994, Martin Margiela did something unprecedented with his contemporary luxury fashion brand Maison Martin Margiela, which was to debut a collection with no new designs but rather...

Presenting a rare and archival pair of Martin Margiela 'Semi Couture' Canvas Sleeves from the autumn-winter 1997 collection, a true gem that captures the ...

HERMES MARTIN MARGIELA Vintage Reversible brown ivory cotton overcoat FR38 M Reference: TGAS/C01611 Brand: Hermes Designer: Martin Margiela Material: ...

The possibilities are endless with the simplicity of this soft white Maison Martin Margiela 100% cotton knee length tank dress. Can be dressed up or down, be the center of attention ...

White label Made in Italy Fabric 60% Alpaca, 30% Laine, 10%Nylon Size/Measurements (approximate) Size 38 Length 39cm (centre back to hem)

- Maison Martin Margiela - Artisanal line - Sold by Gold Palms Vintage - Spring/Summer 1999 - Mid wash vintage jeans repurposed with thick white paint coating - Size S Measurements...

▪ A rare Martin Margiela black leather reversible 'flat collection' coat ▪ Distressed black goatskin ▪ Displaced armholes ▪ No collar ▪ Front hook fastenings ▪ 2 side pockets ▪ I...

This piece epitomises the deconstructed era of the Margiela house in the 1990’s. A maxi length, A line shaped dress in a signature colour for the house (taupe/olive) with grey felt ...

Made in Italy Fabric 100% Viscose Size/Measurements (approximate) Size 36 Bust 45.5cm (armpit to armpit) Length 127cm (centre back to hem) Condition Pilling and Stains

1990s Original Margiela Tabi Boots Gold Beige satin Size EU 41 Collectors, archivers and serious fashion lovers this is for you. From the fall 1...

White label Produced by Miss Deanna Made in Italy Fabric 80% Rayon, 20%Nylon Size/Measurements (approximate) Size XL Bust 49cm (armpit to armpit) Sleeve 53cm Length 113cm (centre ...

1990s Original Margiela Tabi Boots Black Leather Size EU 39 U.K. 6 Collectors, archivers and serious fashion lovers this is for you. From the...

Satinated dress with photographic print Made in Italy Fabric 100%Rayon Size/Measurements (approximate) Size M Bust 46.5cm (armpit to armpit) Length 101cm (centre back to hem) Condi...

White label Made in Italy Fabric 50%Wool 50%Cotton Size/Measurements (approximate) Bust 41cm (armpit to armpit) Length 131cm (centre back to hem, excluding collar) Condition Peeli...

White label Made in Italy Fabric 100%Wool Size/Measurements (approximate) Size 44 Length 101cm (centre back to hem)

Produced by Miss Deanna Made in Italy Fabric 60% Cotton, 40% Acrylic Size/Measurements (approximate) Size M Shoulder 39cm (shoulder to shoulder) Bust 44cm (armpit to armpit) Sleeve ...

Made in Italy Fabric 100% Cotton Size/Measurements (approximate) Shoulder 38.5cm (shoulder to shoulder) Bust 50cm (armpit to armpit) Sleeve 58cm Length 64cm (centre back to hem, e...

Made in Italy Fabric Vest&Gloves 100% Linen Skirt 100% Slik Size/Measurements (approximate) Vest Size 40 Gloves Size M Vest Front Chest 37cm Vest Leng...

Martin Margiela Artisanal distressed denim jacket. Size M Condition: Very Good

Produced by Miss Deanna Made in Italy Fabric 60% Cotton, 40% Acrylic Size/Measurements (approximate) Size S Shoulder 35cm (shoulder to shoulder) Bust 45cm (armpit to armpit) Sleeve ...

Size/Measurements (approximate) Shoulder 38cm (shoulder to shoulder) Bust 50cm (armpit to armpit) Sleeve 66cm Length 83cm (centre back to hem)

Produced by Miss Deanna Made in Italy Fabric 60% Cotton, 40% Acrylic Size/Measurements (approximate) Size S Shoulder 34cm (shoulder to shoulder) Bust 39cm ((armpit to armpit) Lengt...

1990's Maison Martin Margiela Artisanal Collection Double High Waisted Wide LegTrousers in wool with an adjustable nylon drawstring waistband.

Introducing the Martin Margiela Autumn-Winter 1999 shoes, a remarkable and innovative footwear creation from the avant-garde designer's iconic collection. Crafted from luxurious bla...

As conceptual art while he transitioned to Hermes Creative Director in 1998, Belgian Martin Margiela--whose creations today debut in the setting of a contemporary-art gallery priced at upwards of EU$150,000--created this stenciled or block print. Conceived by arguably the most culturally influential contemporary fashion designer since Gabriel "Coco" Chanel, it is part of a limited-edition-of-two white-boxed set that includes the couture Maison Martin Margiela "Artisanal Line 0" body-harness lingerie in its maker's signature color white for Spring 1998. The same lingerie--one white and the other black--starred in a film made by Margiela among the five that he screened to present his Spring/Summer 1998 "Flat Collection" in Paris at the Conciergerie. In that film titled "4", which begins with a view of the iconic topless tabi "boots", the hands of Margiela's white-labcoat-clad assistants enter the frame to manipulate different garments on a model who initially wears the exterior lingerie (see our photos) as if jewelry. A simple dark collared coat, a white collared button-down shirt, and a dark button-down cardigan--all with the "displaced neckline" or "displaced shoulder" of the flat-hanging clothes--are transformed into new collarless plunging v-neck garments, which appear to be ruched when folded under the harness of the lingerie. Both black versions of the lingerie are in museum collections. In Martin Margiela's home-country, the ModeMuseum (MoMu) archived its collected piece as OBJ7660. In the 2018 Parisian retrospective exhibition at Musee de la Mode/Palais Galleria when its artistic director was Martin Margiela (working with Curator Alexandre Samson), the second black lingerie was featured on a mannequin and collected the same year by the Vogue Paris Foundation. Other conceptual designs from this same 1998 collection of jewelry were acquired by TheMet museum in Manhattan. Without the restriction of the use and function of clothing, the small uncreased print--on a card that can be removed from the interior-box bottom that it loosely spans--shows the buyer how to endlessly fashion unique tops using the structural-elastic lingerie as an undergarment for their own pre-worn button-down shirts. This is a more obvious example of the once avant-garde concept of anti-fashion upcycling that Martin Margiela introduced to challenge social and fashion-industry norms by the 1990s, which echos the revolutionary anti-art of Marcel Duchamp. Essentially, valuable art/fashion can be made from everyday vintage objects. While Duchamp did so in 1917 with a men's porcelain urinal titled "Fountain" attached to a gallery exhibition wall, they both made the point that it is the way that such items are reassembled that can make the result a progressive statement. What makes the print so special and worthy of framing for display is that, without words, the three numbered images on a single white card encapsulate the before-its-time fashion manifesto of Martin Margiela to recycle fashion in remarkable new wearable ways, such as harnessed by his unique lingerie. According to The New York Times in its 2021 feature-story that reflected on his radical fashion design and delved into his crossover art, Margiela "changed how we dressed in the 1990s", while his art embodies "the visionary man he has always been." At a turning-point shortly after Margiela designed this couture set in 1997, his personal manifesto became more difficult to accomplish in his fashion career as the new leader of France's historic luxury fashion-house Hermes, for which his first womenswear collection was presented for Autumn/Winter 1998. Frustrated by the limitations of the industrialized luxury trade and conglomerate conflicts with his closely guarded privacy, the famously "invisible" designer pre-maturely retired from the fashion industry in 2009 to independently build on his clever artistry in other mediums. Margiela continues to demonstrate what he often told his fashion teams: "The less you have, the more creative you are as a designer." This minimal finely-crafted lingerie without size or gender restriction--composed of adjustable "polya-elasthanne" straps with a clear anti-slip strip on the underside and three silver-plated metal double-rings--can be worn either as a concealed structural undergarment or as a visible jewelry-like body harness in appreciation of its meaning as a foundation for recycling fashion, pure form, and meaningful color. While the initial Maison Martin Margiela ready-to-wear brand tag until the late 1990s was a distinct corner-sewn unbranded white label accompanied by tags for origin and materials/care, the couture version for this lingerie is a single tiny white unbranded tag stitched in a line near the end of the waist strap, noting in English, "Made In France," with succinct material/care identification. The set's original white unbranded box and its white black-typed couture-identification sticker complete the "invisible-brand" aesthetic. We interpret the black-type codes on the aged box-sticker (“E98 ST HAUT; Struct Elas Blanc; 02; TU"): Spring 1998 Haute Couture; white structural-elastic garment; Artisanal Line 0 edition of two; one size only. The print, lingerie and box are in very good condition as shown in the photos with only one mark on the rear edge of the exterior box-lid. Although initially tried on by the sole owner to realize a restructured shirt, the lingerie body-harness was never worn. It was collected in Belgium at the Brussels boutique where Martin Margiela initially sold his brand with his founding business-partner Jenny Meirens since 1988. Prior, Margiela worked for several years as a fashion-design assistant to Parisian Jean Paul Gaultier. Both designers have since received independent museum retrospectives internationally--from Paris' Grand Palais and Musee Palais Galliera (The City of Paris Fashion Museum) to NYC's The Brooklyn Museum and Antwerp's MoMu. While others continue to try, Martin Margiela (b.1957) is the only leading fashion designer to have made a full-time transition to the commercial contemporary-art world with such highly valued works. As a rare revealing piece of both fashion and art history, the increasing value of this Maison Martin Margiela 1997...

Margiela Artisanal white shirt, Spring-Summer 1995

Resurrection Vintage is excited to offer a very rare vintage Maison Martin Margiela "Presentation" cassette tape. The cassette has been in our...

Martin Margiela Lighting Skyline Dress in black rayon/cotton with printed lightening erupting over an urban skyline. Simple T shirt lines, from the MM6...

Martin Margiela; 'Duvet' coat made from a Featherlite 100% down filled duvet. Sleeves can be detached with zip closures around arm holes, 2 front pockets and sold with an additional ...

▪ Rare Martin Margiela artisanal maxi dress ▪ Made from a patchwork of damaged 1940s dresses sourced by the designer at the flea markets in Paris ▪ Small - Medium ▪ Fall-Winter 1993 ...

▪ Rare Martin Margiela brown wool coat ▪ Matching oversized belt with large metal buckle and adjustable elastic tape ▪ Single-breasted ▪ 2 front flap...

Vintage Maison Martin Margiela brown cowhide belt is rugged with sturdy straps in front that buckle closed. The wide band measures 24 inches. The complete width, including fasting st...

Martin Margiela jersey open jacket with trompe l'oeil digital print. Can be styled open or close with a safety pin. Spring-Summer 1996

Resurrection Vintage is pleased to offer a vintage Maison Martin Margiela grey suiting lapel vest with white basting stitching. Circa 1997. Maison Martin Margiela Size: One Size Woo...

Resurrection Vintage is excited to offer a vintage Maison Martin Margiela black sleeveless maxi sweater dress featuring a v-neckline and crinkle appearance. Maison Martin Margiela S...

Resurrection Vintage is excited to offer a vintage Maison Martin Margiela black satin button-down shirt featuring long sleeves, contrasting buttons, one breast pocket, and a folder o...

Martin Margiela black cardigan has a deconstructed neckline. The front measures 14", back is 22". Neck-to-cuff measures 28", underarm circumference measures 32", underarm-to...

Presenting an archival Martin Margiela grey knitted wool v-neck oversized sweater from the Autumn-Winter 1998 collection, a true testament to the brand's boundary-pushing creativity. This exceptional piece reflects Margiela's artistry and commitment to challenging conventional norms in the world of fashion. The sweater is coated in a distinctive plastic resin, deliberately designed to crack with age and use, adding a unique and captivating dimension to the garment. This innovative technique embraces the concept of evolution and transformation, encapsulating the spirit of Martin Margiela's thought-provoking designs. The v-neck and oversized silhouette further emphasize the brand's avant-garde aesthetics, exuding an air of nonchalant elegance and unconventional charm. Featured in Mark...

This vibrant red Maison Martin Margiela Wrap Skirt is made of an irresistible soft cotton. The wrap-style vintage, knee-length skirt secures with an inner button and outer zip along ...

Martin Margiela; Artisanal white painted denim jeans. Matte white finish with original blue denim interior. Fall-Winter 1999

Introducing an iconic Maison Martin Margiela black wool oversized coat from the Autumn-Winter 1996 collection. This coat exemplifies the designer's avant-garde approach to fashion an...

Martin Margiela black velvet maxi slip dress with spaghetti straps, low back and silk panel on the hem Fall-Winter 1995