ABOUT OUR COLLECTIONS

Dear visitors,

The exhibition 'Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto' is currently on display on both levels of the museum.

To discover our permanent collections, we invite you to visit us in Spring 2021. For the first time in the history of the Palais Galliera, the new galleries on the ground floor will offer you a new perspective on the history of fashion, from the 18th century to the present day, through a renewed tour of our collections.

Pair of boots, Martin Margiela

TROMPE-L'OEIL BOOTS OF SALOMÉS WITH SILVER HIGH HEELS ON A FLESH BACKGROUND

Martin Margiela
Logo stamped on the white leather soles, tone on tone: 17 18 19 20 21 (22) 23 / Maison Martin Margiela / PARIS"
Ready-to-wear, fall-winter 2007-08
Silver leather. Flesh leather. Silver plated metal.
GAL2019.1.50.1-2
Acquisition Vogue Paris Foundation 2018
Palais Galliera, musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris

Martin Margiela's Fall-Winter 2007-2008 collection confirms his creative shift towards clearer silhouettes, playing with bright colours and prints, and clothing with a hybrid structure.

At the second pass of the show, compressed by the stretch of black trousers, we can see the volume of these high trompe-l'oeil boots in flesh leather, inlaid with a pair of salomés (Women's shoe popularized in the 1920s, both closed and low-cut, whose vamp extends over the instep by a central strap through which a closing strap passes.) in silvered leather. The trompe-l'oeil and the surprise it arouses is one of Martin Margiela's favourite tricks since his first collection in the spring-summer of 1989.

>> Discover the show on Vogue.fr

Notice's author : Alexandre Samson