The white cotton embroidered front cover, emulating Margiela's stark labeling
The first jacket from 1989's premier SS collection (left), Margiela staff members walking under a confetti of silver snow in celebration of 2009's 20th anniversary (right)
2009's Maison Martin Margiela exhibition in Antwerp (left), Various Margiela Tabi boots featured in collections from 1989 until 1996
Backstage at the 1991 SS women's show (left) The first Margiela store to open in Los Angeles back in 2007 (right)
A suit from Margiela's first ever men's collection in 1999 (left), Backstage in a knee-length bull's eye dress in 2007 (right)
AW 1999 with a silver, hand-painted Artisanal raincoat and cork necklace (left), some 2005 Margiela coverage in the International Herald Tribune
A calico waistcoat from 1997's Autumn Winter collection, featuring tailors markings (left), the Maison Martin Margiela headquarters on the Rue Saint-Maur, Paris (right)
A telegram invitation to 1989's premier SS 1989 show (left) Margiela'a first men's painted shoe collection from 1999
A shot from 2000's Oversized collection (left), The Ebisu store in Tokyo which opened back in 2000 (right)
An oversized, destroyed dress from 2009's spring summer collection (left), A series of shots from 1990's Spring Summer collection, including white confetti scattered by models during the show and a 200% size
Margiela's line of White Russian Dolls which have been around since 2002 (left), Autumn Winter 2001's womenswear collection invitation (right)
Backstage at the women's Spring Summer 2009 show featuring a negative photograph of 1989's first jacket (left), the line up board from 1992's Spring Summer show
Stenciled stairs at Margiela's Parisian headquarters (left), backstage at 2007's Autumn Winter women's show with coats made out of padded sequin rings (right)
A lining shot from Autumn Winter 2008's Sartorial collection (left), A fur jacket made out of blonde wigs for Autumn Winter 2008's Line 0
A men's dinner jacket from Spring Summer 2000 women's show (left), backstage in black
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