Margiela the invisible leaves the fashion house that bears his name
Art closest designer
Now that he has left, everybody is wandering where will he start again.
Martin Margela, 52, avant-garde Belgian designer, has always been an advocate of the ever-changing matter that modifies its shape and evolves continuously.
Thus after he left (officially) the fashion house he founded 20 years ago, and since 2002 in majority owned by Renzo Rosso Diesel group, many are already betting on his comeback in the nearby future.
Not in the fashion word this time, but in the art one, to which he always felt close: some of his waistcoats made out of ballpoint pen caps or other ironmongery’s style jackets would have fitted better in an art gallery than on a catwalk.
A tantrum maybe, or a disagreement with the Venetian king of jeans?
Diesel headquarters deny the rumours, showing satisfaction about the turnover which in the last seven years has risen from 15 to 105 millions.
As a matter of fact, it has been rumoured for a while that the designer-guru, keen for a life change, has been less and less present among his collaborators-initiates, that he always dressed with long white overalls.
Visually very few will miss him, as he virtually never showed his face, nor there are pictures of him.
Martin who started his career as Jean Paul Gautier assistant and has been designing for Hermes is to fashion what Thomas Pynchon is to literature. It is rumoured that he is a very tall guy, over one metre and 90 centimetres, beard and with a perennial protective hat.
An extraordinary figure in such a context given the idiosyncrasies towards any media, publicity included. He reserves one and only exception for his catwalks: he never missed one.
But always hidden among the public, never in the first row, so that nobody ever could recognise him.
