{"title":"Maison Martin Margiela","description":"\u003cp\u003eMaison Martin Margiela was a Belgian fashion house founded in Antwerp in 1988 by Martin Margiela, operating until his departure in 2009. The house became one of the most conceptually rigorous and influential forces in late twentieth-century fashion, known for its anonymous presentation, deconstructed garments, blank labels, and systematic refusal of conventional fashion spectacle. Its shows, lookbooks, invitations and printed communications were themselves objects of design intelligence — often photocopied, handwritten, or deliberately unmarked.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe objects gathered here are printed ephemera and publications relating to Maison Martin Margiela: invitations, lookbooks, artist books, and printed matter issued in connection with the house’s collections and collaborations. Each piece records a specific moment in the house’s practice and the printed form through which it entered circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"mark-borthwick-xerox-2000-1-maison-martin-margiela-2002","title":"MARK BORTHWICK — Xerox: 2000-1, Maison Martin Margiela, c. 2002","description":"\u003cp\u003eArtist photobook. 21.0 × 27.2 cm. 200 pages. Softcover. Photocopied grayscale reproduction, self-published by Mark Borthwick, c. 2002. Blank tan outer cover. No title, no text, no credits on the cover or spine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally connected to Borthwick’s 1998 interpretation of Maison Martin Margiela’s Fall–Winter 1998\/99 collection, first published as \u003cem\u003e2000-1\u003c\/em\u003e. When the original edition sold out and became quickly unobtainable, Borthwick is understood to have made small Xerox runs for friends who had missed or could not afford the first edition. These copies were made by placing the original book directly on a copier rather than reprinting the photographs flat — producing visible copier shadows, softened contrast, tonal variation across pages, and an intentionally provisional, handmade feel that sits close to Margiela’s own language of absence, reproduction, anonymity and anti-luxury.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe interior moves through grayscale photographs of a female figure — seated, standing, in profile, from behind — shot against plain studio grounds. The images are quiet, almost clinical, and entirely without styling in the conventional sense. A handwritten text page in French and English appears mid-sequence, dense and running edge to edge, describing movement, proximity and the body in terms that are at once intimate and structural. The photocopy process absorbs the photographs into its own grain: what survives is posture, gesture, the back of a head, a ponytail, a white chair.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorthwick’s Margiela work sits at the edge of fashion image, artist book and private circulation. These Xerox copies have since taken on their own cult status — objects that document not only the original photographs but the conditions of their reproduction and distribution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: good vintage condition. Age toning, handling wear, soft corners, light surface marks and creasing visible. Xerox tonal variation and production irregularities are inherent to the edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mark Borthwick","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53858535899474,"sku":"BORTHWICK-MMM-CAT-2002","price":175.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Borthwick_Mark._The_Xerox_Books._2002_Book_2_front.jpg?v=1782639827"},{"product_id":"mark-borthwick-social-documentaries-amid-this-piste-2002","title":"MARK BORTHWICK — Social Documentaries Amid this Piste, Self-published, c. 2002","description":"\u003cp\u003eArtist photobook. 21.0 × 27.2 cm. 240 pages. Printed wraps. Black-and-white xerox \/ photocopy printing throughout. Self-published by Mark Borthwick, c. 2002.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally related to the scarce 250-copy edition, this self-published photocopy version was reportedly produced by the artist in a very small, undocumented number after the original edition had become hard to find. The book gathers Borthwick’s photographs, text fragments, DIY shoots and personal references into a loose visual diary: fashion plates shot against plain walls and in outdoor light, handwritten and typed texts, landscape photographs, maps, close-up studies of hands and objects, and sequences of figures in motion or at rest. The photocopied surface is not simply a cheaper reproduction — it changes the register of the work, making the images flatter, grainier and more unified, absorbing fashion, personal photography and writing into the same grey field.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe interior moves between registers without announcement: a woman standing against a wall in a striped dress faces a woman from behind in a plain black shift; a seated figure cross-legged on the floor faces a standing figure seen from behind, hair loose, holding something at her back; a typed poem headed \u003cem\u003eIn order of things\u003c\/em\u003e faces a grayscale landscape of a lone young tree in an open field; a numbered list headed \u003cem\u003ePlus\u003c\/em\u003e faces a close-up of two hands holding a thin wire or thread between them, a small ring suspended from it; a page headed \u003cem\u003eNew York \/ F train\u003c\/em\u003e carries thirteen numbered observations about strangers on the subway, facing a small reproduction of a map labelled \u003cem\u003eBerlin \/ Teilgebiet B\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorthwick’s work sits between fashion, music, artist book culture and private image-making. By the late 1990s and early 2000s, his collaborations with Maison Martin Margiela and his quiet, anti-commercial photographic language helped define a more intimate and improvised visual culture around fashion publishing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: good used condition. Age toning to pages and covers, light handling wear, natural softness to the printed wraps. Xerox production gives the book an intentionally grey, degraded, atmospheric surface.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mark Borthwick","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53858595602770,"sku":"BORTHWICK-SOCIALDOC-CAT-2002","price":250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Borthwick_Mark._The_Xerox_Books._2002_book_1_inside_1.jpg?v=1782641837"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/maison-martin-margiela.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}