martinMARTIN:: JOURNAL

martinMARTIN PHILOSOPHY::

IN THE EARLY 19th CENTURY CLASSICISM WAS VIEWED AS THE OPPOSITE OF ROMANTICISM, WHICH FOCUSED ON SPONTANEOUS EXPRESSION OF EMOTION OVER REASON. DRAWING ON THE NOBLE ASPECTS OF WORK  UNIFORMS AND THE ONGOING INFLUENCE OF THE PUNK MOVEMENT, martinMARTIN INTERMIXES TRADITIONAL FUNDAMENTALS WITH THE COMPLEX ELEMENTS OF ANTI-STYLE. THE CLOTHING IS SOMEWHAT MISMATCHED, COUPLED WITH DISTORTED DRAPING TECHNIQUES. BY DISRUPTING THE CODES BY WHICH TRADITIONAL CLOTHING MAKES ITS APPEAL AND BY RADICALLY REINTERPRETING THE WESTERN CONCEPT OF BEAUTY AND UGLINESS, martinMARTIN QUESTIONS THE AMBIGIOUS MARRIAGE BETWEEN THE ENDURING AND THE EPHEMERAL…

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