Rare pieces from Maison Martin Margiela, Commes Des Garçons and Yohji Yamamoto? We're sold.

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Avid vintage fashion shoppers, get ready&nbsp;to make some of the biggest purchases of your life. Come 17 April, 200 iconic pieces from fashion history will be up for grabs at the&nbsp;Vestiaire Collective X Byronesque Digital Pop-Up.&nbsp;

Featuring seminal works&nbsp;by&nbsp;designers like Maison Martin Margiela, Jean Paul Gaultier and Helmut Lang, the pop-up has&nbsp;been carefully curated by&nbsp;Byronesque, a&nbsp;personal shopping service that specializes in contemporary&nbsp;vintage fashion with a focus on subcultures.&nbsp;

The pop-up will go live on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vestiairecollective.com/">Vestiaire Collective</a>, the go-to&nbsp;online platform for pre-loved luxury shopping. The collaboration also marks the launch of Vestiaire&#39;s&nbsp;Archive Series,&nbsp;which will showcase unique&nbsp;vintage collections.

Below, we&#39;ve highlighted some&nbsp;of our favourite pieces from the collection &mdash; along with the history that comes with them.&nbsp;

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This one&#39;s a must-have for any devotee of Rei Kawakubo. The highly&nbsp;sought-after piece is actually a re-issued show&nbsp;robe that looks just like the one&nbsp;that was often worn&nbsp;by&nbsp;the revered Japanese cult designer in the &#39;80s.&nbsp;

Show Robe by Commes des Garçons, 1986

&quot;The Tabi boot is the most important footprint of my career: it&rsquo;s recognisable, it still goes on after 25 years, and it has never been copied,&quot; said <a href="https://www.lofficielsingapore.com/fashion/fashion-exhibitions-in-2018-international-designer-retrospectives-haute-couture-archives-fashion-installations-to-see">Maison Martin Margiela</a>.&nbsp;

That statement held true until Vetements unveiled its homage to the iconic shoe at Paris Fashion Week this year. Regardless, we still very much prefer&nbsp;this original pair that was reimagined and painted over by the Belgian designer.

Painted Tabi Boots by Maison Martin Margiela, 2004

Even before the logomania craze of the &#39;90s was revived by brands like Gucci, Prada and Fendi (which just last week revealed a <a href="https://www.lofficielsingapore.com/fashion/first-look-the-fendi-ff-capsule-collection-launching-13-april-on-net-a-porter">capsule collection</a> featuring its archival&nbsp;logo), Jeremy Scott showcased the trend for his runway show at the turn of the millennium. Streetwear enthusiasts will recognize this&nbsp;bomber jacket for exactly what it is: an exceptional&nbsp;nod to nostalgia that is surprisingly modern.&nbsp;

Logo Bomber Jacket by Jeremy Scott, 2000

&quot;Martin could have been predicting the end of glamour and ostentation with this pre-recession warning. Or an indication of his own fragility towards an industry he left only a few seasons later,&quot; says Byronesque founder, Gill Linton.

Either way, one thing&#39;s for sure: a bag wrapped in tape that boldy declares in bright red font,&nbsp;&quot;FRAGILE&quot;, is as good&nbsp;a way as any to make a statement.&nbsp;

Fragile Bag by Maison Martin Margiela, 2006

This is the trench coat to end all trench coats. This leather number is actually one of the lesser-known pieces by the legendary Jean Paul Gaultier. For his version of the autumn staple, the couturier didn&#39;t just limit the belt to the waist;&nbsp;like a true innovator,&nbsp;he wrapped one&nbsp;each around the collar, the cuffs and even across the shoulders.

Trench Coat by Jean Paul Gaultier, 1998

Shot by subculture legend Derek Ridgers and styled by Byronesque&#39;s Fashion Director,&nbsp;Tara St Hill, the campaign film for the&nbsp;Vestiaire Collective X Byronesque pop-up perfectly captures the essence of the collection. Reminiscent of the underground &#39;80s club scene, the&nbsp;hypnotic video pays tribute to a bygone era when&nbsp;what you wore mattered more than who you were.

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The film stars models Suzi Leenaars in authenticated Sex &amp; Seditionaries garments from 1976 and Carl&nbsp;Hjelm in a one-of-a-kind suit comprised of a Yves Saint Laurent leather blouse, Maison Martin Margiela jacket and a pair of&nbsp;Comme des Gar&ccedil;ons trousers &mdash; all vintage. Rick Owens&#39; muse and wife Mich&egrave;le Lamy&nbsp;even makes a cameo in the video. Watch below.&nbsp;

No Ticket No Coat

The&nbsp;Vestiaire Collective X Byronesque Digital Pop-Up goes live&nbsp;on 17 April at <a href="https://www.vestiairecollective.com">VestiaireCollective.com</a>.

Vestiaire Collective x Byronesque Unveils a Pop-Up of Vintage Fashion Gems

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