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Maison Martin Margiela

Jacket, Autumn/Winter 2005

Now On View Recent Acquisition

Description

Maker

Maison Martin Margiela, established 1988, Belgian
Maison Martin Margiela 'Artisanal', design label

Title

Jacket

Year

Autumn/Winter 2005

Medium

Cotton crepe yarn and synthetic-fiber plain weave stitched onto vintage wool twill-weave jacket

twill weave ground

Materials/Techniques

Materials

wool,
cotton

Dimensions

Center back length: 66 cm (26 inches)

Type

Fashion,
Costume

Credit

Edgar J. Lownes Fund

Object Number

2015.67

Exhibition History

Repair and Design Futures

October 5, 2018 - June 30, 2019

Though made of textiles rather than hide, the Maison Martin Margiela Artisanal jacket—fabricated as a unique, explicitly labor-intensive garment—has an exterior of bandaging fabric, a material associated with healing, wrapped as a protective skin around the body of a vintage wool jacket. The leather pouch, probably Cheyenne, was used for carrying medicinal herbs. It shows reverence by using every bit of the skin, evident in the piecing together of various bits of hide repurposed from another object. [See also 43.121]

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