LONDON REPORT MAY JUNE 2010 - PART ONE
EVENTS
1/ MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA 20 EXHIBITION, SOMERSET HOUSE
Somerset House has become somewhat of a fashion hub since it began to host London Fashion Week in 2009. Now, for spring 2010, the large river fronted space houses a major retrospective of the work of Maison Martin Margiela. Titled “Maison Margiela 20” with reference to the label’s numerical coding system for its different lines, and the 20 year existence of the brand, the show had been on by the brand’s current owner, since 2002, Diesel, and Martin Margiela himself is no longer designing for the company. However there is an abundance of M. Margiela’s inimitable designs, with many archive pieces specially brought for the show. The very well curated exhibition shows the development of the brands key features – the for a few examples, extensive use of white and whitewash, customisation and found pieces, the Margiela ‘Shoulder’, the ‘Tabi’ shoe - in themed displays. It gives hope for the future of the brand in that Diesel are so willing to embrace (and display) its history, with or without the house’s founder. One hopes that the innovation and subversion so masterfully incorporated by Margiela into all of his pieces will not end here.
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