‘Unfinished’ Shift Dress
Pushing Maison Martin Margiela’s Design Download challenge even further, SHOWstudio invited four established creatives to work from Margiela’s pattern to create a dress, to be photographed in a final shoot. Drawing on the idea of Martin Margiela as the ‘designer’s designer’, fellow fashion innovators Hussein Chalayan, Ann-Sofie Back and Swash were invited to complete their own version of Margiela’s download, adding their fashion aesthetic to that of the Margiela team, alongside contemporary artist Alexis Marguerite Teplin.
Hussein Chalayan
Ann-Sofie Back
Swash and Yuko
Description
A simple shift dress pattern, without sleeves and with no hemming, was Maison Martin Margiela’s 2004 contribution to the series. The catch? The pattern is unfinished. Rather than merely allowing the downloading public a chance to recreate the garment, Martin Margiela wished to offer an opportunity to engage them in a two-way exchange.As if joining the actual designers at the key stage in the making of a garment, this is your raw material to shape into a new fashion item.
Source: ShowStudio