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Solestruck's MIISTA contest submission.

Microbiology & Maison Martin Margiela

 
 
 

I wonder what has happened to the garments since...? Hopefully they disposed of the garments efficiently? It's very difficult to find information about this exhibition. I just find the same description text over and over again. Seems like it would be an incredible health hazard....
Regardless, the mixture of Science and Fashion.....

"The first solo exhibition by Maison Martin Margiela. The exhibition is held in the “glass pavillon” of the museum, built in the 1980’s, that adjoins a rose garden and a large decorative pond. Eighteen dressed dummies represent all previous Martin Margiela Collections (Spring/Summer 1989 up to Autumn/Winter 1997/98). Garments chosen from each season are specially reproduced in whites, creams and greys. A collaboration with a prominent Dutch Microbiologist Dr. A.W.S.M van Egeraat, Professor at the Wareningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands. Each outfit is treated with different strains of bacteria, yeast and mould, all isolated from the air and nurtured to provide varying colours and textures. Over the first five days of the exhibition these organisms develop on the clothes and, once their gestation period is complete, change the colour and aspect of the garments. All eighteen silhouettes remain on the exterior of the pavilion and may only be viewed from the inside through its glass structure. A handbook is published to assist those viewing the exhibition. This handbook, covered in white cotton contains three books: Book (a) represents the Maison Martin Margiela, (b) the garments and their treatment and (c) is a reference book on bacteria and micro biology."

Sources:
http://www.contemporaryfashion.net/index.php/none/more/113/uk/exhibition.html

Maison Martin Margiela (9/4/1615), first exhibition at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Magazine: Street Magazine Vol. 1 & 2 1999
Photographer: Patrick Scallon

Maison Martin Margiela (9/4/1615), first exhibition at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Magazine: Street Magazine Vol. 1 & 2 1999
Photographer: Bob Goedewaagen

Maison Martin Margiela (9/4/1615), first exhibition at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the NetherlandsMagazine: Street Magazine Vol. 1 & 2 1999
Photographer: Bob Goedewaagen

Love came here & never left.

Tasya Van Ree

Trigger.

My heart skipped a beat.
Faint. Figment. Flutter.

Screencaps of Shanghai Express/His Girl Friday/Rules of the Game

Some things...

...are so beautiful that it's heartbreaking.
Interesting notion, isn't it?

Smoke without fire.

♪In the shadow of your heart.

Ultra Deep Field.

Sometimes our egos can barely contain us until we are humbled by the delicacy of our existence.

Hungry Eyes.

The best kind of photography is the honest kind...don't you think?

It is then that you see the true beauty in the message that naturally forms. Not to say that other forms aren't beautiful, only that they are pre-determined.

One of my greatest fears is losing my eyesight. My eyes have always been of poor health.

That is why I am so hungry to see.

Two Flickrs I recently became a fan of:


David Cooper
Her photos aren't shareable but they are available to be seen publicly.
Marija Radosavljevic

I am so perpendicular.

We are so parallel.

The Chameleon

Source:http://www.theones2watch.com
For bigger/higher resolution:http://www.theones2watch.com/newwave/2617

In ♥ with this.