Maison Martin Margiela artisanal purple military shirt — fall 1995

Size: unknown

Armpit to armpit: 40 cm

Sleeves: 57 cm

Length: 61 cm

Composition:

unknown

Details:

Purple military style women’s shirt

2 front pockets

Reworked garment, originally a found mens’ military shirt

Original label from the French military: C.S.V. Cerizay 1989

Margiela line 0: artisanal garment

Unique item, worn on the fall 1995 runway:

A red circus tent in the Bois de Boulogne. Sixty-nine women, wearing cotton muslin veils obscuring their faces, pass among the seated puvlic. A record of Rossini opera music is played over and over again. Silhouettes of black and dark colors evolve, as the women pass, into outfits of combined pinks and fuchsias. When the last silhouette has passed the music changes to radio hit played loudly. All of the women come out again. They wear the same outfits without their veils, smiling, their hair is loose and the are holdingmany helium filled fuchsia ballons.

“Since its beginnings in 1988, Maison Martin Margiela has been gathering garments, accessories, used and sometimes new objects across the globe. That these garments and objects may be given a second life whilst respecting and maintaining the traces of the passage of time and use remains one of the keystones of the creative expression of the Maison. Each garment is reworked entirely by hand in the atelier of the Maison in Paris. The complexity and specificity of each step of such a creative process of transformation will naturally limit the quantity of garments produced. The individuality of the materials used to create each garment ensures that each is as unique as that which was used to create it. The label, numbered 0, is sewn, embossed or stamped depending on the material used to create the garment or accessory.” “Artisanal” pieces are now shown as haute couture collections.”

Condition: 3,5/5

Faint mark under the collar