Maison Margiela Opens Its Creative Archive

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Model wearing sculptural cream headpiece, choker, and beads with a floral lace garment.

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Maison Margiela poster clipped to a white board, showing painted legs and feet.

Silver and white jackets on mannequins in a blue showroom with plastic curtains.

Explore the archive of an iconic French fashion house.

Project name

MaisonMargiela/folders

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Mason Margiela Folders

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Dropbox

Since its founding in 1988, French fashion house Maison Margiela has been collecting a rich library of physical and digital creative files, including campaign images, atelier materials, working documents, and project timelines.

Now they've done something something quite revolutionary in the fashion world: through a project called MaisonMargiela/folders, they've made their once-private Dropbox folders public. Conceived of in the spirit of creative exchange and radical openness, it’s a rare, behind-the-scenes look into the brand's creative process, artistic vision, and archival material.

Models walk among stacked shipping containers on an industrial runway.

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MaisonMargiela/folders kicked off with a Fall–Winter 2026 fashion show in Shanghai presented during Shanghai Fashion Week. What followed was a series of free exhibitions and events across China. Each activation was inspired by and designed to embody one the house’s four codes that’s core to to brand’s identity—Artisanal, Anonymity, Tabi, and Bianchetto.

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The project is a living archive, and as it continues, new files will be added and updated for people to engage with and experience. And it’s all available right here on Dropbox.