Wig
1997 {autumn-winter 1997-98}
- Medium
- leather, fur (fox)
- Measurements
- 31.0 × 28.0 × 24.0 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Italy
- Inscription
- label, centre crown, white cotton stitched at each corner with white cotton:
- Accession Number
- 2020.601
- Department
- International Fashion and Textiles
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM and Family through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gift’s Program, 2020 - Gallery location
- Level 3, NGV International
- About this work
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The wigs featured in Martin Margiela’s 1997 show were created as a commission by BLESS. Margiela had seen BLESS’s work in i-D magazine and approached the duo to collaborate. His condition was that the furs be recovered from old flea-market fur coats and dismantled in his workshops, and that the wigs imitated real hairstyles according to his drawings. This example features a hallmark engraved on a metal rivet to document the collaboration.