Summer 2010 - Dior Homme & Maison Martin Margiela (High-Fashion Footwear)

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Maison Martin Margiela - Spring/Summer 2010 - Sneakers



This season, Maison Martin Margiela designs leans on retro shapes, simple shades and strong concepts. The stand out pair for me were the oki-ni white leather slip-on sneakers. The white slip-ons come with a medical touch as they are inspired by the simple white slip-ons worn in medical environments such as hospitals. The upper is crafted from an all-over white large grain leather with matching white stitching and textured rubberized grey sole. Definitely stripped to the bare essentials and unadorned, these sneakers are definitely choice footwear for the quirky sneaker purists who enjoy a good back-story but can do without ostentatious coloring.

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Kris Van Assche may champion less is more, but he does not skimp on sophistication just because things are kept clean with a cool minimalist attitude. The Artistic Director of Dior Homme has been winning the hearts and minds of sneaker purists over with uncluttered shapes and classic palettes. This black sneaker not only plays with straps, laces and eyelets, it also plays with contrasting texture by mixing leather with suede and what seems like ballistic nylon. The only pop of color comes from the heel panel that mixes khaki with white.

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Before stepping down: Maison Martin Margiela creates the Martin Margiela Suite

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Despite rumors which had been traversing around for months, it was finally announced earlier this month that Belgian designer, Martin Margiela, has quietly left his handiwork, fashion house Maison Martin Margiela. While most fashion houses sought out new creative directors to carry on the vision of its founder, Maison Martin Margiela will be venturing off on a different path, not appointing a replacement but to leave the fashion house’s visions to its existing creative staff that was built by Margiela himself.

Before the designer officially departed from his creation, Maison Martin Margiela continued to wash the world bit by bit with their signature shade of white. Other than a collection of furniture and “white objects” home ware, the designer had also worked with hotel/spa, Les Sources de Caudalie to create a special all-white Martin Margiela suite, which reopened last week. The signature suite is a freestanding cabana situated by a beautiful pond, available for stay at 650 euros a night.

The suite’s design is iconic of Margiela, working a burnished white and grey palette, contrasting simple, modern silhouettes with deconstructed archaic looks of Haussmanian walls. White calfskin rugs litter the floor and pillows are stitched to walls to form a large, mural-sized headboard; and a mirrored, reflective coffee table reminiscent of Robert Morris’ Untitled installation of mirrored cubes. While the space is generally white with a disconcerting sense of fabrication (bathroom tiles are photo-printed pebbles) to be slightly ghostly, pops of color injects an interesting wave of energy into the space, in form of a pop-arty flaming red hot lips sofa. Other than enjoying a space curated and crafted by Margiela, 650 euros a night will buy you a special Martin Margiela package including gift signed by the designer, and of course healing times at the spa.

Velvet Sneaker: by Martin Margiela (Fall/Winter 2009)

Available at: colette.fr



The Martin Margiela low top trainer comes as part of his Fall/Winter 2009 Collection in an all-over velvet version. Not only the sneaker upper, but also the mid-sole, outer sole and the laces are entirely covered in velvet, resulting in an overall very interesting look.

Martin Margiela: 22 collection - Slip-On Sneakers

Via: Yoox



From the Martin Margiela 22 collection come these new slip-ons. They are available in two beige tones and a striped colorway. The colors look really simple and keep the sneaker very clean. In an age where everything is going really loud with experimental colorways of all kinds, material quality and clean looks are sometimes hard to come by. Now available at Yoox.