Catwalk show by Maison Martin Margiela at the opening of the exhibition Fashion & Art 1960—1990,
Catwalk show by Maison Martin Margiela at the opening of the exhibition Fashion & Art 1960—1990, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, 1995.The Van Heckes’ fashion shows were something special. They organized them in their own salons, at several galas, and even during the intermissions of blues concerts. Or at the gallery le Centaure, where during the opening night of a Kees van Dongen exhibition in 1927, they had their models parade among the invitees. More than sixty years later, in 1995, Maison Martin Margiela would do the same on the opening night of Fashion & Art in the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels. Florence Müller: The performance/installation that Martin Margiela created at the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels in 1995, one of the first exhibitions devoted to art and fashion, was very impressive. With a band of masked, non-professional models parading on a carpet of confetti throughout the opening evening, which was filmed and displayed in the exhibition space afterward as a “trace” of the event, he produced a spectacular effect with a minimum of financial outlay. -- source link