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Inside Martin Margiela’s solo exhibition at Lafayette Anticipations

For his first-ever solo show, designer and artist Martin Margiela presents over 20 installations, sculptures, paintings and films in a headline exhibition at Lafayette Anticipations, Paris. Presented for the first time to the public, Margiela’s artworks are labyrinthed through a myriad of immersive spaces composed to highlight the creator’s...

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Fashion critic Suzy Menkes and her 3 most favorite runway shows.

SHOWstudio has invited Suzy Menkes, fashion critic, journalist and editor at Vogue to reveal her top three catwalk shows for a series of videos called Narrated Catwalk. Lumps and Bumps (SS 97) by Comme des Garçons, Black and White (SS 93) by Maison Martin Margiela and Christian Lacroix’s Haute Couture (AW 89) commented with Suzy’s passion and...

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Video: official trailer for the documentary Martin Margiela: In His Own Words

Check out the official trailer of the documentary mode Martin Margiela: In His Own Words u> . The documentary focuses on the first creative expressions Margiela. The Margiela mother drawings and sketches saved from her son. The Barbie dolls of his youth, which he made a copy of an Yves Saint Laurent blazer, kept them. P> The Belgian designer...

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Vetements taps Nina Nitsche, key Martin Margiela Collaborator

London - Nina Nitsche, the long-term first assistant and former successor to Martin Margiela, has left Maison Margiela after close to two decades to take up the design reins at Vetements. Nitsche has been appointed Vetements Collection Director, according to reports from WWD, after working under the wing of John Galliano. In her new role,...

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Paris Fashion Week: Day 4

Loewe's London-based creative director Jonathan Anderson looked to the 80s for inspiration as he had done with his own namesake label during London Fashion Week last month. In Paris he showed modernist geometric prints patterned across dresses layered over metallic trousers. Leather jackets, a Loewe staple, came in classic slouchy silhouettes...