Wig

Wig
 1997 {autumn-winter 1997-98}

Gallery location
Not on display
 

About this work

The wigs featured in Martin Margiela’s 1997 show were created as a commission by BLESS. Margiela had seen BLESS’s work in i-D magazine and approached the duo to collaborate. His condition was that the furs be recovered from old flea-market fur coats and dismantled in his workshops, and that the wigs imitated real hairstyles according to his drawings. This example features a hallmark engraved on a metal rivet to document the collaboration.

Artwork Details

Medium
leather, fur (fox)
Measurements
31.0 × 28.0 × 24.0 cm
Place/s of Execution
Italy
Inscription
label, centre crown, white cotton stitched at each corner with white cotton:
Accession Number
2020.601
Department
International Fashion and Textiles
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM and Family through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gift’s Program, 2020
Reproduction requests
Gallery location
Not on display

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