MAISON MARGIELA Fall 2016 Paris - Fashion Channel

MAISON MARGIELA Fall 2016 Paris - Fashion Channel Visit and Subscribe to Fashion Channel to find out more! - http://bit.ly/1OdEd04 Visit our Shop: https://www.fashionchannel.shop The multiplicity of angles from which John Galliano’s Maison Margiela Artisanal collection can be perceived are dizzying and not a little surreal. There is the fact that a young French soldier in full combat gear, carrying a giant automatic weapon, was standing guard as the audience filed into Les Invalides and across the beautiful 18th-century quadrangle that houses the museum of military costume, a statue of Napoleon looking down on them from a great height. Galliano’s collection mixed up fragments of technical urban streetwear with references to French revolutionary times, including a swaggering military greatcoat and a tricorne hat, worn at a jaunty angle, which might almost have been purloined from Napoleon’s own wardrobe. With the tricorne and greatcoat were a tartan shirtdress, a Barbour-like padded liner, and Wellington boot waders. Further along, a gutsy yellow sailing coat and a silver wind-cheater technical hoodie got involved. That in itself was a nod to the methodology of Martin Margiela, who founded his Artisanal collection on the practice of skewing, upcycling, and repurposing existing garments in surreally witty ways. Videos, fashion, stylists, models, the biggest fashion events pass by us. Accurate descriptions for every video since 1982 with attention to the sm