Main Project Research on fashion designer Martin Margiela
In this post, I will briefly describe main aspects of Martin Margiela's work and its influence on my project. Following posts will describe designer's work in more detail, pointing out the most interesting parts from a few of his collections.
Martin Margiela is a Belgian fashion designer graduated form Royal Academy of Arts in Antwerp, Belgium. After his university years, he worked as a freelance designer before getting a job as Jean Paul Gaultier designer's assistant. Jean saw a huge potential in young Martin and their work was more similar to cooperation between the two, rather than master and student relationship. When Margiela left the house of Gaultier's, he opened his own brand and started to work for his own name.
In the childhood, Margiela's biggest inspirations were his grandma and his father. His grandma was a tailor and father had his own hair shop. Martin was fascinated by changes his dad was making with customers' hair and loved to sit and stair when grandma was working with clothes.
Margiela was creating looks for his dolls when he was a kid. He could go to his grannie, pick up some leftover fabric and ask her to make clothes for his dolls. Once, he saw a fashion show in the TV and asked his mum what was it. When she explained it to him, he said he wanted to be a fashion designer. This idea stayed with him for his whole childhood.
One of the most characteristic elements of Margiela's work is deconstruction of garments, repurposing some parts of the wardrobe to perform as totally different clothing, the use of white colour and his anonymity. Masks worn by the models on the runways and overall hiding of the identity is also his thing. Margiela could create any part of the wardrobe from any other garment or fabric if it just suited his vision and what he wanted to achieve and say through that. His opinion on fashion design tends to gravitate towards describing it more as a craft rather than an art form however, his designs and form of showing it to the public can be interpret differently. His clothing is often very conceptual, however still wearable. His approach to the purposeness of garments can be very artistic and always questioning the reality and the way they look.
I would like to learn from Margiela's aesthetic and choices and influence my work with it. I would like to play with colour white more, include deconstruction in my designs and always question thing on the way they look and why. I believe this designer will be a great inspiration for my work in this project as well as my future in general therefore, I will be still researching his work and try to learn from it.
Sources:
crfashionbook, 2019. Martin Margiela. [image] Available at:
<https://www.crfashionbook.com/fashion/g26964846/martin-margielas-muses-throughout-history/>
[Accessed 7 February 2021]
Madsen, A., 2020. The Elusive Martin Margiela - Who HAs Never Taken A Bow And Gives Interviews IN The Third Person - Is Starring In A New Documentary. [online] British Vogue. Available at:
<https://www.vogue.co.uk/fashion/article/martin-margiela-documentary> [Accessed 7 February 2021]
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