Artist: Martin Margiela
Date: 1998
Museum: The Kyoto Costume Institute (Kyoto, Japan)
Technique: Polyester
This collarless jacket has the narrowed front bodies and the sleeves were attached to them so as to to produce a flat composition. As the result is a completely flat structure, the narrow front has distorted the breast pocket, so that clear wrinkles are left when the jacket was pressed after sewing. Martin Margiela is highly experimentative, and a lot of his creations are produced with approaches that distinguish him from other designers, including unfinished clothes, clothes reconstructed from second-hand resources, and his vests that mimic Stockman torso. His experimental streak can clearly be seen in this jacket, too.The Spring-Summer 1998 collection that included this jacket was presented in a joint show with Rei Kawakubo, who has been constantly at the leading edge of fashion since the 1980s. Margiela freely admits that Kawakubo
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