Martin Margiela

One of the subtexts of the moment is that so many people are looking back 20 years to the high eighties, when Parisian designers like Azzedine Alaïa, Jean Paul Gaultier, Thierry Mugler, and Claude Montana were in the ascendant. (Coincidentally, Martin Margiela has a 20th anniversary thi...

If that had been it, the audience would've left content. But after taking her bow alongside her mother, Sonia's daughter Nathalie grabbed the microphone and announced, "A birthday without a surprise isn't a birthday. You've been inspiring the world of fashion for 40 years; here's your pr...

The house was packed for Martin Margiela's 20th-anniversary collection, an occasion whose significance was sharpened by the swirling rumors—causing fear among the many Margiela wearers in the hall&#8212that he is about to retire. (To get that one out of the way up front, a spokesw...