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Maison Martin Margiela

Evening Dress, Spring/Summer 2012

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Description

Maker

  • Maison Martin Margiela, established 1988, Belgian

Title

Evening Dress

Year

Spring/Summer 2012

Medium

Plastic sequins on silk plain weave and silk fringe

Dimensions

Center back length: 123.2 cm (48 1/2 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

[blank white cotton label at center back]; separate attached tags read "Made in Italy"; [size] S; 100% silk / 100% plastic / 100% silk / 100% rayon. Retail tags still attached with additional information.

Type

  • Fashion,
  • Costume

Credit

Georgianna Sayles Aldrich Fund

Object Number

2015.103

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Swagged and Poufed

January 22 - July 3, 2016

In their Spring/Summer 2012 presentation, Maison Martin Margiela presented this columnar evening dress on a runway strewn with Turkish, Central Asian, and Persian carpets. Entirely encrusted in sequins arranged in a Persian carpet pattern, the dress gives the appearance of a rug coming off the floor to swathe the figure.

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Evening Dress with the accession number of 2015.103. To request a higher resolution file, please submit an online request.

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