When John Galliano showed Maison Margiela's Artisanal collection last month, it was with an emphatic gesture towards the house's re-appropriative approach to materials: turning potato sacks into dresses and carpets into jackets. As Kaat Debo, Director of Antwerp's Modemuseum, explained in the accompanying tome to the influential 'Maison Martin Margiela…
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