Margiela & the Antwerp 6

Margiela, S 2009Often associated with one another, Martin Margiela and the designers known as the Antwerp Six graduated from the Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts at the same time. Margiela first worked for Gaultier and began to build his company based on a low profile brand presence and innovative designs. In 2002 he sold his company to Deisel and has played a decreasing role in the design. It is now called �Maison Martin Margiela.�Margiela 1991 & 1998Maison Margiela S 2008 Margiela jacket made form a Swiss Army bag, 2006Margiela negated the fashion industry. Using a cerebral, almost scientific method for his label, he has had employees...

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Deconstruction Fashion

by Alex HessEuropean designers Bless, deconstruct sunglassesAlison Gill: Deconstruction Fashion, 1998Gill defines deconstruction in terms of fashion as garments that are unfinished, coming apart, recycled, transparent and grunge. She says it is the literal dismantling of clothes in order to destroy fashion. To better understand the philosophy behind the statement, she looks at other forms of French deconstruction through philosophy and other aesthetic constructions.Comme de Garcons, 2006, the design combines two opposing aesthetics giving both a presence but denying either totality. Both aesthetics are in play with one another.The term deconstruction...

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Deconstruction

by Elizabeth BarthelmesJacques Derrida 1930-2004The concept of deconstruction, as a philosophy, emerged primarily with the publication of Jacques Derrida�s Of Grammatology in 1967. In this work he poses the question, �must not structure have a genesis, and must not the origin, the point of genesis, be already structured, in order to be the genesis of something?�. Thus, Derrida was active in �deconstructing� the world around him, through studying systems structures and finding their origins. Focusing upon language, the structure of philosophy, he believes that words and underlying connotations are constraining to describing things as they really...

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Power Designers: Yves Saint Laurent

by Jenny SeoYves Saint Laurent1 August 1936 � 1 June 2008�Fashion fades, style is eternal,� YSLYSL above by Warhol, 1974Unmistakably known as the �King of Fashion,� Yes Saint Laurent stays true to his label and title. Yves Saint Laurent�s fashion career rocketed after winning the International Wool Secretariat contest and was immediately recruited to work for Christian Dior. After Dior passed away, Saint Laurent was appointed as head Haute Couture designer in 1958. Saint Laurent was twenty-one years old. However, after Saint Laurent came back from fulfilling his military obligations, he was replaced at the House of Dior, and he opened up his...

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Power Designers: John Galliano

by Jenny SeoJohn Galliano28 November 1960 - Present�Yeah, that's what I'm working for. The couture house of the future.� Galliano. Enough said. Any fashion aficionado or follower must or already knows of Galliano�s ingenious designs and influence in the fashion industry. Galliano was born in Gibraltar, but raised in London, and eventually moved to Paris to start his booming career. Coming from a modest family where his father worked as a plumber, Galliano came to be a surprise not only to himself but to the fashion industry. It wasn�t until the sixteen year-old Galliano went to East London College to study design, that he discovered the arts....

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