An exclusive with Marina Faust
In an A BLOG exclusive, we invited photographer and artist Marina Faust to offer her personal contribution to this month’s exploration of A#1. We offer our thanks for revisiting her contribution to the magazine and reminiscing on her work with the Maison Martin Margiela, sharing her story with us all.
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“Martin Margiela gave me carte blanche for A Magazine in 2004.
I remember it having been inspiring and encouraging. I was moved by his trust in my work.
I worked with Martin Margiela since 1990 making videos of the presentations of the artisanale collections and, as a photographer, shooting backstage, diverse subjects like series for magazines, photos during the preparations of the new collections, photos for the printing on materials for outfits, as well as shooting the ‘icône’ images which are the black and white postcards that represent each collection.”
“the full cycle of the coat:
1. my photos for Margiela of a wintercoat
2. the negative of the image for printing on a light fabric
3. backstage image of the finished photoprint trompe l’oeil summercoat
4. self-portrait wearing the photoprint summercoat
In 2007 I had an exhibition/installation at the MMM project space in their Ebisu space in Tokyo. The title was Mohair. I also showed my film The park in the projection room.”
“Among fashion series for magazines I recently shot a series on MMM for the Austrian A Guide Magazine for which I chose together with stylist and Taiwan magazine maker Gene Ching-Ku pieces from over 20 years of the Artisanale collection. It is a sequence on gestures between a woman and a man.”
“In 1994 I put a story on Martin Margiela together for Purple Fashion magazine. It is a series of backstage photos and a text I wrote on Margiela. The issue is out of print today.”
