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Maison Margiela S/S 2009

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Martin Margiela’s Spring/Summer 2009 collection for his namesake house marked the Belgian designer’s fortieth womenswear show, and twentieth anniversary since first launching Maison Martin Margiela in 1988. Over the course of two decades, Margiela’s non-conformist attitude and conceptual approach to design produced some of the most forward-thinking, radical collections of the 1990s and early 2000s.


Posted March 25th, 2018 By Colby Mugrabi

For spring 2009 the designer showed a self-reflective collection, revisiting pivotal moments throughout the house’s history through the eyes of present day, further challenging many of the fashion codes and concepts he introduced years, sometimes decades prior. The show opened with a reproduction of Margiela’s first jacket from spring 1989, followed by a simple t-shirt dress printed with a negative image of the original double-breasted blazer, Margiela first utilized this fabrication technique in spring 1996 when he showed a collection of unadorned dresses and skirts printed with negative photographs of sequins and other ornate materials, giving each piece a trompe l’oeil effect. The designer toyed with perspective through a number of flattened jackets, in reference to his spring/summer 1998 collection which studied geometry, questioning how two-dimensional garments could lie flat on a female’s body, and paid homage to the ‘replica’ line the designer introduced in 2003 through the inclusion of two identically styled ‘twins’, denoting the women being replicas of one another. Key themes such as anonymity and recycling were expressed though models’ blanked out, stocking-covered faces, and in the use of reworked, repurposed materials. Margiela has continuously challenged cut and proportion through the introduction of circular silhouettes, pointed shoulder pads – in 2006 – and famously in his fall/winter 2000 collection of enlarged garments, which were denoted in the final three looks of his spring 2009 show. True to form, in celebration of twenty years in fashion Margiela, remarkably unknown by face, let the clothes speak for themselves, and speak they did.

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Carlo Mollino

Casa Devalle (The House of Oblivion), 1940, Torino, Italy

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Meret Oppenheim by Claude Lê Anh

In a paper jacket Oppenheim created for an Italian designer

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Man Ray

Portrait of Juliet, 1945

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Venus Restaurée, 1936

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Meyer Vaisman

Untitled Turkey XVII (Marie Antoinette), 1992

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Guy Bourdin and Eva Stenram

Walking Legs Series

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Meret Oppenheim

My Nurse, 1936

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Adam Fuss

“Christening Dress” photogram from series “My Ghost”, 2001

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Robert Mapplethorpe

Andy Warhol, 1986

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Carlo Mollino

Casa Devalle (The House of Oblivion) Photographs, 1939

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Carlo Mollino

Casa Devalle (The House of Oblivion) Photographs, 1939

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Irving Penn

Christian Lacroix Duchesse Satin Dress, Paris, 1995

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Meyer Vaisman

Untitled Turkey XVI Peg, 1992

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Nan Goldin

Jimmy Paulette and Taboo! in the bathroom, NYC, 1991

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Hans Bellmer

Untitled (Unica Zürn) from “Unica Tied Up,” 1958

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Yves Saint Laurent

Fall/Winter 1966

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Mollino 1939 devalle 068 640x360

Carlo Mollino

Casa Devalle (The House of Oblivion), 1940, Torino, Italy

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95659894 o

Meret Oppenheim by Claude Lê Anh

In a paper jacket Oppenheim created for an Italian designer

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Man ray  portrait of juliet  1945

Man Ray

Portrait of Juliet, 1945

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Man ray  titled  dated 1936 71

Man Ray

Venus Restaurée, 1936

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U0000112big

Meyer Vaisman

Untitled Turkey XVII (Marie Antoinette), 1992

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Guy  bourdin eva stenram 1

Guy Bourdin and Eva Stenram

Walking Legs Series

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Meret Oppenheim

My Nurse, 1936

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Adam fuss photogram   from the series my ghost  2001

Adam Fuss

“Christening Dress” photogram from series “My Ghost”, 2001

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27artsct1sub master768

Robert Mapplethorpe

Andy Warhol, 1986

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Carlo Mollino

Casa Devalle (The House of Oblivion) Photographs, 1939

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Carlo Mollino

Casa Devalle (The House of Oblivion) Photographs, 1939

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Irving penn  christian lacroix duchesse satin dress  paris  1995

Irving Penn

Christian Lacroix Duchesse Satin Dress, Paris, 1995

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Meyer vaisman turkey

Meyer Vaisman

Untitled Turkey XVI Peg, 1992

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Nan goldin

Nan Goldin

Jimmy Paulette and Taboo! in the bathroom, NYC, 1991

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Unica z  rn  photographed by hans bellmer  1958. from     unica tied up

Hans Bellmer

Untitled (Unica Zürn) from “Unica Tied Up,” 1958

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Ysl fw 1966

Yves Saint Laurent

Fall/Winter 1966

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