Maison Martin Margiela discover Kingsland Road

The Artisanal collection by Maison Martin Margiela is a haunting collection of materials, objects and stories: crystals, keys, gadgets, snippets of vintage fabrics, a Bauhaus tapestry of the '20s, and one that revisites "La femme du roi" by Gaugin, a pin up drawn by Sailor Jerry.         It's a work of art to wear, irreverent and fascinating as a priceless treasure hidden among items of minor things.

It's the holy grail of every collector, the desire which fuels the compulsion: the search for the perfect object buried under a pile of junk.       And this is the story that Lorenzo Vitturi, styled by Robbie Spencer, tells on the pages of the Dazed & Confused summer issue.

The photographer captures Margiela's clothes in Ridley Road market, among the dozens of pound shops. It 's an area of east London where the young Italian artist lived for seven years and who has already explored in Dalston Anatomy, book and exhibition, open at the Photographers' Gallery from August 1 to October 19, which interprets the phenomenon of gentrification which is the victim that place.

"I wanted to create a unique and abstract visual composition," says Vitturi regarding the decision to shoot the editorial for Dazed in this street "so you don't see a difference between the set, the model and the clothes."

The result is an obsessive and surreal tableaux vivant, a pop and elusive alchemy that masked models, clothes and art are integrated with daily.