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Maison Martin Margiela
Maison Martin Margiela
Fashion sometimes follows paradoxical paths, advancing in a kind of zigzag direction as the
result of the eruption of contradictory trends, as if with a sudden swerve it sought to leave
the beaten path and dart off into uncharted territory, as if with the end of the journey ap-
proaching, it decided, suddenly, to change direction and continue further down the road.
In this play of continuity and rupture, harmony and questioning, what is constantly brew-
ing is change, evolution. Some follow fashion; others defi ne it.
Among the latter is Martin Margiela. At the core of the fi rm Maison Martin ...