Fashion Fact: No One Knows What Martin Margiela Looks Like

By Alexandra SUHNER ISENBERG

April 26, 2011 - My fashion savvy readers are probably groaning right now, thinking that this is not new or exciting information, but in fact, not everyone knew that Margiela is a very...secretive person. (I'll bet he hangs out with Banksy.)

I had mentioned the gorgeous MM6 collection, and I thought I'd follow up with a bit about the brand. Some of this is a repeat of a post from 2009, but I thought it was ok to repost it, since most of you weren't reading my blog back then (in fact, hardly anyone was.)

Anyway, Margiela doesn't do any personal appearances. He never meets journalists, talks to them, or communicates directly with them. (Not even the major journalists have met him. ) In fact, the brand communicates as a company, never as a person. For example, they would never say "Margiela chose to recycle and reconstructed old jeans this season", they would say "Maison Martin Margiela has recycled and reconstructed old jeans this season." It is always the "Maison", not the individual...read more