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Thursday, 17 July 2008

Invisible man


Martin Margiela has never given an interview. He has never been photographed and almost no-one in the fashion industry knows what he looks like.

Since he started out, in 1988, the designer has never agreed to a single interview or been photographed for any magazine, however respected the title. Particularly in a climate where the superstar designer – from Jacobs to Prada, and from Tom Ford to Vivienne Westwood – might hardly be described as backwards in coming forward, one could be forgiven for thinking that Martin Margiela is a figment of the industry's imagination. And that's just fine by him. Suffice it to say that Martin Margiela makes Greta Garbo look like Victoria Beckham.


1 comment:

Belle de Ville said...

In a world of non stop self promotion and over the top personnas like Karl Lagerfeld and Donatella Versace, I find it refreshing that he lets his designs speak for themselves.