A simple shift dress pattern, without sleeves and with no hemming, was Maison Martin Margiela's 2004 contribution to our Design_Download series. Engage with the house in a conceptual dialogue by using this as the basis to make a design of your own. As if joining the actual designers at the key stage in the making of a garment, this is your raw material to shape into the new.
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Design_Download
Download Maison Martin Margiela's 'Unfinished' pattern to create a garment and collaborate in their trademark conceptual dialogue
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Image Gallery
In a twist on the Design_Download theme, SHOWstudio invited four creatives to reinterpret Margiela's garment and photograph the results
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Submissions Gallery
Be inspired, or inspire yourself - view our Viewer's submissions so far and send in your own to be included in our online gallery
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Design_Download
Snce 2004, Martin Margiela and his eponymous Maison have invited SHOWstudio viewers to collaborate with them via their Design_Download. Left purposefully unfinished, Margiela's pattern is intended not as a final, perfect grment, but as a base - the start of a creative dialogue where each individual's input shapes the final garment. As if joining the actual designers at the key stage in the making of a garment, this is your raw material to shape into the new.
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Hussein Chalayan
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Ann-Sofie Back
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Swash and Yuko
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Ada Fung/Elizabet Holmstrow
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Claudia Rosa Lukas
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Alexis Marguerite Teplin
Pushing Maison Martin Margiela's Design_Download challenge even further, SHOWstudio invited four established creatives to work from Margiela's pattern to create a dress, to be photographed in a final shoot. Drawing on the idea of Maison Martin Margiela as the 'designer's designer', fellow fashion creatives Hussein Chalayan, Ann-Sofie Back and Swash were invited to complete their own version of Margiela's download, adding their fashion aesthetic to that of the Margiela team, alongside contemporary artist Alexis Marguerite Teplin. SHOWstudio viewers Claudia Rosa Lukas and Ada Fung/Elizabeth Holmstrow were also asked to send their dresses, originally showcased in the Submissions Gallery - to be photographed for this live event.
Download the pattern for Maison Martin Margiela's 'Unfinished' garment, make up and then add your own touches to complete this conceptual piece. Style and photographing the final garment and send the images to be published in our Design_Download gallery.
Please send high-quality JPG images (10MB maximum) along with your name, location, contact details, credits and any other information you want to share to: design_download@showstudio.com