Glenn Martens sends models down the Margiela runway wearing jewelled lip retractors as facial adornments
Glenn Martens sent models down the Margiela runway wearing jewelled lip retractors as facial adornments. I do not know whether the new accessory will go on sale or was made for the show alone. The idea is that these are Margiela's signature four stitches, only laid over the lips.
It is curious that the new adornment holds the mouth open. Once, to make a person sit with his mouth agape, something extraordinary was required: art, beauty, a miracle. Now fashion will do.
Progress! The mouth is always open, and in advance, so as not to waste time on astonishment. One does not yet know what there is to marvel at, and one is already ready.
Once the mouth was kept under lock and key; now it is kept on a clothes peg. They used to say: hold your tongue; now the tongue cannot keep up with fashion.
But if it does go on sale, it will vanish from the shelves in a trice, for there will be demand: for the open mouth, for the closed mind, and for style in place of sense.
