Maison Martin Margiela spring—summer 1990. Those present at Martin Margiela’s Paris show
Maison Martin Margiela spring—summer 1990. Those present at Martin Margiela’s Paris show were witness to a unique event. In retrospect, the choice of this site—a demolished third-world Paris ghetto—and the deconstructivist impulse of the clothes seemed to echo the collapse of the political and social order in Eastern Europe. The fashion troops perched on the crumbling walls that October evening were, in their own way, an eerie harbinger of jubilant Berliners dancing on the crumbling Wall in November. Margiela’s event now takes on a historical aspect; it was a preview into an unknown world that we could not then have recognized or understood. True visionaries, without knowing the whys and wheres, create by reaching into their deepest passions, and on rare occasions anticipate events before they happen. At this Paris show, Martin Margiela’s arsenal of rebellious imagination exploded amidst the rubble and graffiti-marked walls of a demolition site in a third-world district. Enthusiastic neighborhood children, fascinated by the invasion and the exotic models in various states of deconstructivist style, became part of the show. -- source link