by Christine LeeMartin Margiela's Hair Coat is currently displayed at the Les Arts Decoratifs as part of a fashion exhibition (Les Ann�es 1990 & 2000: Histoire Id�ale de La Mode Contemporaine Vol. 2.) It is the first thing that you see upon walking through the doors of anticipation that stirs from questions of whether this exposition will be worth a valuable Sunday afternoon. Any and all doubts are cast aside about the exhibition when you lay your eyes on this one piece. Immediately, you are drawn in. This piece is Margiela. It stands for a major component of who he is as a designer: an avant-garde visionary, capable of transforming unorthodox...
