The Artist is Absent: The Official Maison Martin Margiela Thread

[hayaoyamaneko]

https://maisonmargiela.ssense.com/

 

[Moosbrugger]

Does anyone have any info of this robe coat?

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Google tells me another one sold on grilled and that the fabric is alpaca, but there's no info on how old the coat is. Cheers guys

I'm 95% sure this coat is a fake (I'd need care tags to be sure). Spacing and stitching on the label tag is off. Also the cut doesn't look like early Margiela + early Margiela outerwear almost always used cotton for the lining rather than viscose.

 

[WBaker]

Slightly tangential, but I dont believe anyone's discussed Margiela's Line 13 (objects) or there furniture collaborations. I believe there are three different origins for Margiela furniture: showroom pieces, Baleri Italia collab, and hotel collabs starting with la Maison Champs-Elysées.

Spoiler: Furniture

Champagne glass tower display at Los Angeles Showroom (not technically furniture I suppose)

Shelves made from brackets in the Munich showroom

Table made from sign stands in Tokyo Showroom.

Display Top Desk for Champs-Elysées hotel

Rattan Armchair for Champs-Elysées hotel

Chairs Slip Covered into Sofa used for Boutiques and Champs-Elysées hotel. Made by Baleri Italia.

Slanted Desk from Baleri Italia collab

Slanted Headboard from Baleri Italia collab. Also shows three of the miniaturized dining tables from this collab.

Not sure what this is called but pillows tied together has been used here as seating and as a wall hanging/headboard.

Connected Pillows. Wall hanging, Headboard, Comforter?. Also shown trompe l'oeil door sticker from Line 13.

Upholstered Chair in Paris Showroom

I wasnt able to find pictures, but I know one of the Japan showrooms had a dining chair hung from the ceiling like a swing, and a coffee table made from a large pile of books covered with a glass top.

Spoiler: Line 13 "Objects"

Glow in the Dark Lightbulb. I have one of these! White light bulb painted in a lume material so it becomes a nightlight in the evening.

Wine Bottle Lamp. Reminscent of wine/champaigne bottles used as candle holders in Boutiques.

Champaigne Bottle Candle Holders found in several boutiques

Margiela Candelabra. White heat resistant plastic base designed to look like melted wax.

Egg Door Stop

Stainless Pocket Clip Ashtray. I have one of these!

Travel Candle Holder. Three faces of mirrored stainless create an illusion of multiple candles. I have one of these!

 

[wfross822]

Does anyone know who manufactures Margiela bags or if they were made in-house? (Those from Line 11 that were made in Italy)

 

[Aidantg]

Hey! Got a question for anyone who’s got experience in cleaning up and restoring items.

There’s a pair of margiela ‘paper maché’ boots I’d fallen in love with a while ago, so when I came across a pair for a great price I had to snag them. Only problem is they’ve been weathered a fair amount and the white’s turned to more of a yellow and brown. The rest of the aging (e.g. the cracking) I’m good with, but I’d like to figure out a way to clean them up without damaging the paper maché like surface.

pictures of the boots purchased:

pictures of the boots new condition:

 

[flowcharts]

gesso them

 

[ambyance]

hello does anyone know where i can find this in 52/54?

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thank you

 

[ghdvfddzgzdzg]

browsing SSense today and some of the Margiela womens footwear is really dumb and good right now

the bubble wrap effect hightop

and the can heel boot

 

[Parker]

soup can heels and bubble wrap sneakers seem oddly "right now"

 

[OccultaVexillum]

Does anybody here have experience with this 5zip?

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I messaged the seller and he said the p2p was 21.5”, which seems very small for a 54.

 

[WBaker]

@OccultaVexillum yes, trying this on I fit in a 50, I'm usually a 46/48 so believe these are undersized.

 

[WBaker]

No plans tonight and i've been meaning to get around to this for a couple years. I'm going to post some pictures from each season that I find unique. I've omitted pictures already in this thread, or that float around with some regularity. I have some images from the old Margiela website, back when they had a nearly complete archive. I've also had a Flickr search bookmarked for 8 or 9 years, I recommend you do this for any topics you're interested in as Flickr images aren't indexed by Google. I bet I have a couple goodies in here even @RegisDB9 hasn't seen before. If you've seen all of the below consider yourself an MMM Painted Black Belt (or would it be white?).

Some of these might be incorrectly sorted especially from the earlier years. I tried my best to reference garments for sorting if there was no season information found along with photo. Please correct me if any are spotted as I want to make corrections to my own archive.

Spoiler: SS99

First Menswear Collection

Spoiler: AW99

Spoiler: SS00

Spoiler: AW00

Spoiler: AW01

This is my favorite set that ive been able to find. I want a cool boot posse...

 

[WBaker]

Spoiler: SS02

My favorite season,

Spoiler: AW02

Gotta love when some magazine picking the model and styling drops the cool factor precipitously,

Spoiler: SS03

I think the lookbook was like some kind of panel talk, cant find hardly any pics from this season,

Spoiler: SS04

Rumor has it this season all the models were refused service at a local lunch spot so shirts were reintroduced with AW04.

I dig this outfit,

 

[WBaker]

Spoiler: AW04

Tons of high quality pics from this collection for some reason!

Miss Deanna knits each sweater like you're her grandson whose always chilly when he visits.

Spoiler: SS05

Spoiler: AW05

Lots of close ups of the artisinal stuff, which isnt common with the other collections.

 

[WBaker]

Spoiler: SS06 Pitti Uomo

Im not certain if there was a separate collection from the Pitti garments. Pitti was all the coolest stuff re-issued in white. I got a few of the best pictures in this group from a person in attendance who had them unlabeled on Flikr only found under Pitti 06.

When you're the only person at the party wearing head to toe line 0 10 artisinal garments and you can't figure out why no one wants to talk to you: