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.

Wig, Martin Margiela & Bless

WIG MADE FROM RECOVERED FUR COATS, IN COLLABORATION WITH BLESS PARIS

Martin Margiela & Bless
Virgin canvas label held by 4 stitches, inside middle back. Gold-plated brass label (oxidized) engraved, under the label: "BLESS".
Ready to wear, Fall-Winter 1997-98, "Winter Stockman" collection
Fur (of fox?) from a recovered coat.
GAL2019.1.37
Acquisition Vogue Paris Foundation 2018
Palais Galliera, musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris

All models of the Martin Margiela Fall-Winter 1997-1998 fashion show are topped with wigs, short or long, made in collaboration with Bless, a fashion and design studio founded in 1997 by Désirée Heiss in Paris and Ines Kaag in Berlin.

The previous year, this Franco-German brand created a wig in the "Ziggy Stardust" style, published in the English magazine i-D. When Martin Margiela discovered it, he offered to the brand a collaboration, on condition that the furs were recovered on old flea-coloured fur coats, dismantled in his workshops, and that the wigs imitated real hairstyles according to his drawings. The colours of mink, fox, raccoon or rabbit wigs range from black to beige. Inside the headdresses, the inscriptions and stamps on the back of the skins of the old coats have been preserved. Bless's brand, a gilded rivet engraved with his name, marks each piece next to Martin Margiela's virgin label.

>> Discover the show on Vogue.fr

Notice's author : Alexandre Samson