Martin Margiela Is Back
The New York Times
The influential designer walked away from fashion in 2009, but he didn’t stop creating. Here’s a first look at his new career.
More than 13 years after leaving fashion behind, Martin Margiela, the elusive and highly influential Belgian designer who changed how we dressed in the 1990s, is back. But not as part of a nostalgia-driven trend wave. As an artist.
On Oct. 20, Mr. Margiela’s debut solo show, which is untitled, opens at Lafayette Anticipations — Fondation d’entreprise Galeries Lafayette in Paris. Like the Margiela clothes, which deconstructed notions of the suit and beauty through unconventional materials and approaches, the exhibition creates a sense of wonder around the banal through some 40 sculptures, collages, paintings, installations and films. It is almost as though Mr. Margiela views the world through the lens of a photographic negative, highlighting the details most of us never see and demanding they be reconsidered.
“I became obsessed with fashion very early in my life and developed my own vision by presenting it in the most conceptual way possible,” Mr. Margiela, now 64, wrote in an email. (The designer famously never showed his face or gave an in-person interview during his time in fashion, and he has not changed his approach now.) But, he wrote, “I needed to explore other mediums, to enjoy pure creation without boundaries.”
Since breaking out in “Atlanta,” the actor has become a dependable Hollywood side man. In “Dope Thief,” a new crime drama, he will finally take the lead.
The best-selling bard of female anxiety rakes over some middle school memories while visiting the city where she grew up.
From a low-slung building in Montana, employees process sex abuse complaints against the music mogul that have been drawn to them through advertising and a viral hotline.
A production partly aimed at students that highlights Tampa’s history in the civil rights movement lands at a time when the state is changing what schools teach about race and history.
Minnesota’s high school hockey tournament is a fashion show of mullets, perms and bleach. With his “All Hockey Hair Team,” John King chronicles the lettuce and flow.
Enter the era of the power curve with Alaïa, Schiaparelli and Chloé.
For all the repellent narcissism of its members, the family of HBO’s “The Righteous Gemstones” has been a deeply humanizing example of evangelical Christian faith.
The latest Tom Ford collection makes a strong case for them.
Anne Imhof’s three-hour spectacle of moody youth at the Armory is sweet sorrow, full of moping and muttering. Still, almost despite itself, it points to true art.
In Bong Joon Ho’s latest dystopian romp, Robert Pattinson plays a hapless underdog whose work aboard a spaceship requires him to die, over and over.
But is this really a “Barbie” moment?
Chad Kassem is on a mission — saving listeners “from bad sound” — at the rural factory where he pores over LPs from some of music’s most important artists.
Charisma, positivity and warmth are traits that fans attribute to the color, which has been on the ascent.