Current couture shows (A/W 2018 and beyond)

This current Galliano collection for Maison Margiela is absolutely gobsmacking....

he's been getting there slowly but here has managed to completely fuse Margiela's deconstruction of pattern and his own wild vision. He really is the cutter and draper extraordinaire. these skills are MAD SKILLS.

https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/fall-2018-couture/maison-martin-margiela

https://fashionista.com/.image/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Ch_2000%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_2000/MTU2Nzc0MDExNzQzOTA1Mzky/maison-margiela-artisanal-fall-2018-6.jpg

https://fashionista.com/.image/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Ch_2000%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_2000/MTU2Nzc0MDExNDc1MzM4ODY0/maison-margiela-artisanal-fall-2018-1.jpg

https://fashionista.com/.image/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Ch_2000%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_2000/MTU2Nzc0MDExNzQzOTA1MjI5/maison-margiela-artisanal-fall-2018-10.jpg

https://fashionista.com/.image/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Ch_2000%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_2000/MTU2Nzc0MDEyMDEyNTM3Mjkz/maison-margiela-artisanal-fall-2018-25.jpg

https://fashionista.com/.image/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Ch_2000%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_2000/MTU2Nzc0MDEyMDEyMjA5Nzc2/maison-margiela-artisanal-fall-2018-16.jpg

In his dynamic presentation, the working methods of the haute couture were exposed—literally—in the reveal of the interfacings and magic stitchery that goes into constructing a man-tailored jacket, or in Katerina Jebb’s X-ray print photographs of garments, superimposed on other garments. Other examples of “the memory of a garment in another garment” include the Edie Beale–esque repurposing of a skirt (worn upside-down as a top) or clothes worn back to front as though put on in haste.

Iris van Herpen:

https://assets.vogue.com/photos/5b3a1f1f203eed2501cf8f14/master/pass/_IRI1085.jpg

https://assets.vogue.com/photos/5b3a1f3b516b2e7880ef2cbf/master/pass/_IRI0729.jpg

^How is that even possible?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXNdSuN9gc8