Maison Martin Margiela FW01 Extended Button Tape Shirt

The extended button tape gives this Maison Martin Margiela shirt from Autumn Winter 2001 its name: the buttoned placket simply continues past the point where a shirt would normally stop. Margiela, who founded the house in Paris in 1988, built much of his work on this kind of quiet displacement, isolating one component of a familiar garment and letting it overrun its borders. Autumn Winter 2001 falls within the years when the maison, still under its founder's direction, was stretching proportion across its collections, the same period that produced its oversized garments.