A Flea Market…

A consumers paradise full of valuable merchandise and unique products.

A traditional bazaar that relishes in bargains on used goods.

And most significantly…

An open-air wonderland of historic antiques and remarkable memories.

A Flea Market is a place where past times awaken, where spirits of years ago come alive and familiarize themselves with the modern world. A flea market is a place where new finds are discovered, where pieces of much substance and worth emerge from memory and become reality. Among the many items that emphasize the flea market’s undeniable charm are elements from different decades. In a flea market, you take a trip to a different era, a different world. You travel to the Roaring ’20s, becoming an independent, scandalous flapper; you travel to the 1950s, the era of Rock & Roll, embracing the rising culture of sexual, musical, and social awakening; you travel to the stand-out ’80s, living a life of boldness and glamour. The flea market is a place of wonder, a place where imaginations run wild, a place where dreams are formed and new interests are explored.

In a flea market, there is an unmistakable beauty, an undeniable appeal to fashion’s endless combinations and connections. Under the market’s cultural eye, there is a diversity, a brilliant array of fashions from all around the world, from all different moments of history. The flea market is the universe of mix and match, of eco-friendly recycling and reusing. It is the place where diversified textures, fabrics, prints, and designs come together and unite, creating a masterpiece of desirable intrigue and cultural awareness. With the fashions of the flea market, come new ideas full of vivacity and eccentricity. With the fashions of the flea market, come new wants full of originality and unconventionality.

For this Spring, the couture, Artisanal collection from Maison Martin Margiela encompasses all of these elements, creating fashions that are memorably stunning and wonderfully inventive…

With mysteriously dark face masks giving off an anonymous feel, this collection focuses on  the essence of the lively, experimental spirit. Straying away from materialistic desires and necessities for status, this collection dazzles in its ability to recollect, repurpose, and reuse. It shines in its ability to break away from the norm and the accepted. It sparkles in its ability to gather the vibes of different cultures and histories and bring them together in distinctive, adventurous creations. This collection is the flea market on the runway. It is that flea market exploration, that discovery of a beautiful, daring find. It is that flea market worldly presence, that realization of the breathtaking beauty of diversity. It is that historic flea market remembrance, that unearthing of past memories of change.

It is that flea market fundamental desire to be yourself, that want to choose what you wish to choose.

Relishing in the maximum, the fashions that walked down the Maison Martin Margiela runway are wild in their bold, zesty energy, in their vintage, historic appeal, and in their artistic, eco-friendly flare. In this collection, there are 1920s embroidered dresses transformed into trench coats, windbreakers, and other forms of outerwear. There are gowns and coats made out of colorful candy wrappers. There are pieces embellished with beaded detail, made to look like messy paint brush strokes. There are pieces infused with an Eastern flavor, basking in international style and grace. There are bandeau tops covered in green and blue feathers. There are wedged, white boots splattered with dark color. There is lush velvet. There is floral print. There is randomness. And there is thrill.

The Maison Martin Margiela Spring 2013 Artisanal Collection…

A truly terrific find.