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Maison Martin Margiela
103 hours * ski gloves = unique jacket
Created by Martin Margiela, this winter jacket is entirely made from ski gloves, as part of his handmade collection. There is something fascinating, but slightly disturbing about the post-apocalyptic industrial look of all these hands stitched together.
Ski gloves are used as the raw material to create a blouson with or without sleeves. Over dyed in dark colours the gloves are unstitched and laid flat so that all original detailing may remain intact and they may be assembled directly on a black cotton base prepared on a tailor's dummy. Two inserted pockets are added to the front of each blouson.
The Belgian fashion designer, who worked for Jean-Paul Gaultier before starting his own Maison Martin Margiela, simply quotes the value of the jacket based on the time it takes to create one: 103 hours. However, at a price of $15,124 for the long sleeved jacket, an hour of the avant-garde designer's time doesn't come cheap.
[via I.D. Magazine November 2006 issue]
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