MARTIN MARGIELA - STREET SPECIAL EDITION - VOLUME 1 & 2 Mathilde Martin with easy living always the

with easy living always the uppermost goal

) as well as for industrials (Krups

she worked from the 1950s onwards as a journalist and designer for the magazines "Elle" and "L'Oeil

and relates these and other design developments to social and political issues

MARTIN MARGIELA - STREET SPECIAL EDITION - VOLUME 1 & 2 Mathilde Martin with easy living always theDolls' clothes and photoprints, transparent dresses, halved sweaters worn on top of other garments, external seams, flat clothing, hand painted jeans worn under a dress or a skirt, these are some examples of what has come from past Martin Margiela collections. His creations are known for their mixture of renovation and wearability, for his ingenious solutions to how a garment's essential elements can be re imagined. This volume presents the two