02/04/2026
Since founding in 1988, the French house has never shown outside of Paris – until now. This season, took Margiela to Shanghai for the brand’s first show outside Paris and its first to combine artisanal and ready-to-wear in a singular collection. The show marks the start of a four-city exhibition tour across China, MaisonMargiela/folders, bringing 58 Artisanal looks from 1989 to 2025 to Shanghai, Beijing, Chengdu and Shenzhen.
Taking over a shipyard outside the city centre, Martens brought a Parisian flea market to life, creating “a world within a world, a place of rituals and obsessions, where curiosities are ready to be repurposed and made new.” Each garment is considered a ‘couture’ piece, with only a few of each item being produced, a reminder of how collections were designed in the brand’s founding years.
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