A new chapter of MaisonMargiela/folders celebrates our first store concept, Maison Margiela Tokyo.
—5 November, Tokyo, Japan – 20 years ago, our first-ever store, Maison Margiela Tokyo Ebisu, relocated from a traditional minka in a leafy Tokyo district to a former electronics factory, a 5-minute walk away, at 2-8-13 Ebisu-Minami.

To celebrate its 20th anniversary, we dedicated the next chapter of our ongoing research and documentation initiative, MaisonMargiela/folders, to Maison Margiela Tokyo Ebisu, presented as a limited-edition ZINE distributed in newsstands across the district and in our store on 5 November, and shared globally through our Dropbox today.

This publication is the manifestation of months of study into our first-ever store, its evolution, and its community. We dove into our archives for information about its conception, gathered first-hand accounts from those there from the beginning (many of whom are still at the store today), detailed the history of our Tabi, interviewed our local Ebisu collectors Noritaka Tatehana and Kozue Akimoto, and Tabi restorer Kozue Akimoto, and commissioned local artists like Takashi Homma to document our shared home. We also made a dedicated Maison Margiela Tokyo manga, inspired by the history of our store’s location – an electrical products factory – created by renowned local manga artist Takehito Moriizumi.

As part of this celebration, we devoted the next chapter of Line 2 – our initiative for unexpected dialogue – to this space through an installation, “Unravelled Memory, Rewoven Future”, forming a creative dialogue between local contemporary artist Mio Suzuki and historic French tapestry manufacturer Les Manufactures Nationales – Sèvres & Mobilier National, open to the public from 5-15 November.

Last night, we hosted a party with our community, including a special preview of the installation. We brought together our favourite spots in Ebisu, including live music by vinyl DJ Wataru Fukuyama, owner of the renowned Ebisu listening bar Bar Martha. Guests included international model and actress Tao Okamoto, actresses Non and Yuka Itaya, actor Noritaka Hamao, Kabuki actor Sennosuke Kataoka, ballet dancer Mizuki Nakajima, and Japanese contemporary artist Kotao Tomosawa, as well as actors and producers from the film The Colour of the Sun, all dressed in pieces from our Fall Winter 2026 collection. Renowned architects Kengo Kuma and Shohei Shigematsu were also in attendance.

Maison Margiela Tokyo: 20 years at 2-8-13. A limited-edition Zine distributed across newsstands in Ebisu on 5 November.

Line 2 is our initiative for unexpected dialogue through creative partnerships. For this instalment, celebrating 20 years of Maison Margiela Tokyo Ebisu at 2-8-13, Tokyo-based artist Mio Suzuki and historic French tapestry manufacturers Les Manufactures Nationales – Sèvres & Mobilier National collaborate to create an art installation that explores themes of deconstruction, time, and memory through tapestry, titled ”UNRAVELLED MEMORY, REWOVEN FUTURE”. This installation is linked to our material exploration of tapestry, which began in the 1990s and continued in our Artisanal 2025 and Fall Winter 2026 collections.

Les Manufactures Nationales in Paris curated a selection of 59 contemporary and antique tapestries, some of which were sourced from flea markets in France and are up to 400 years old. They were shipped to Mio Suzuki in Tokyo, where, over three months, the artist intricately unravelled and rewove them into a series of pieces installed throughout the store.

The installation comes together in the former electronics factory that became our store in 2006; a space shaped by the conviction that the old can become raw material for the new. The oldest tapestries in the curation are traditional “Verdure” tapestries that, although European, depict plant motifs inspired by Japanese decorative art. These parallels, brought together on the 20th anniversary of Maison Margiela Tokyo Ebisu at 2-8-13, served as the catalysts for this initiative.

Les Manufactures Nationales were invited to engage in a dialogue with Mio Suzuki, a textile artist, by curating a selection of contemporary and antique tapestries for the installation. 59 tapestries were selected with their expertise and shipped to Mio Suzuki in Tokyo. Over three months, Suzuki intricately unravelled and rewove them in her studio, installing ”UNRAVELLED MEMORY, REWOVEN FUTURE” in our 2-8-13 store, which unfolds from the entryway throughout.

Les Manufactures Nationales – Sèvres & Mobilier national bring together institutions dedicated to preserving and renewing France’s decorative arts, craftsmanship and design. Their heritage dates to Louis XIV. At the time, tapestry workshops were united under this institution, with the common goal of creating a centre for world-class tapestry weaving. Not only does the institution preserve this important immaterial artisanal heritage, conserving over 1,500 tapestries in its collections, it also continues to sustain the art of tapestry today by combining centuries-old techniques and skilled craftsmanship with the practice of international contemporary artists.

Mio Suzuki is a contemporary artist based in Tokyo whose time-centred practices bind the past to the present through unravelling and reweaving. She transforms materials and textures into immersive compositions that invite viewers to reconsider their relationships with temporality, belonging, and history. A graduate of Musashino Art University and Tokyo University of the Arts, Suzuki has exhibited across Japan and internationally, including at the Thailand Biennale in 2021.