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CoutureMaisonMartinMargiela 1998 Artisanal Lingerie WorkOnPaper WhiteBoxed Set

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As conceptual art while he transitioned to French luxury-house 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--made this rare ink print and lingerie. Conceived by arguably the most culturally influential fashion designer since Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, it is part of a limited-edition-of-two white-boxed set for Spring 1998 that includes the couture Maison Martin Margiela "Artisanal Line 0" body harness in its founder's signature-color white. The same lingerie--one white and the other black--starred in a film made by Margiela among the five that he screened in Paris to present his Spring/Summer 1998 "Flat Collection" 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 (see our photos) to manipulate different garments on a model, who initially wears the lingerie as if jewelry over bare skin. The harness then transforms multiple types of clothing while they are individually wrapped inward around the straps to appear as if ruched. In the film, a simple dark lightweight-fabric collared coat, a white collared button-down shirt, and a dark button-down thin-knit cardigan--all with the "displaced neckline" or "displaced shoulder" of that collection's flat-hanging clothes--became new functional shapes that each feature a collarless plunging v-neckline, whereby the harness is hidden within the folded fabric like lingerie. Both black limited-edition 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), one of the black lingerie/jewelry was featured on a mannequin and collected the same year by the Vogue Paris Foundation. Other conceptual jewelry designs from this same 1998 limited-edition collection were acquired by TheMet museum in Manhattan. Not restricted by the use and/or function of clothing, the small uncreased print--which is 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 vintage clothing. 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, their best work represents a tradition-shattering idea, not merely a new manufactured object but one with the power to make people think and act differently. While Duchamp memorably did so in 1917 with a white porcelain urinal that he attached to a gallery-exhibition wall and titled "Fountain", Margiela emphasized that the reuse of an everyday item, like a piece of vintage clothing, in a new way in the context of a fashion-collection presentation can be a progressive statement that increases its value. 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 this 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 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. 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 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 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. While our set is a rare revealing piece of both fashion and art history, Margiela's newer art objects date back to fashion-related drawings and sculptures in the late 1980s. Notably, his first museum exhibition of garments was at Museum Boijmans Van Beuninggen in Rotterdam in 1997 when he produced this couture boxed set.
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    Taglia indicata: TU one size only (EU)
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    Contemporary Art (Nello stile di)
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    mixed media art as boxed limited-edition-of-two print and couture structural garment for anti-fashion upcycling
  • Condizioni:
    Usura compatibile con l’età e l’utilizzo.
  • Località del venditore:
    Chicago, IL
  • Numero di riferimento:
    1stDibs: LU3244218126742

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