Wig
1997 {autumn-winter 1997-98}
- 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
- 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
Gift of Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM and Family through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gift’s Program, 2020