Belgian designer Martin Margiela has been called the fashion world's answer to British street artist Banksy, so elusive is his physical presence. The designer's revolutionary creations have forever changed the face of fashion, yet he has remained almost anonymous. From the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp to becoming Jean-Paul Gaultier's assistant, and from creative director at Hermès to leading his own brand, Margiela has never shown his face publicly－for more than 20 years and across 41 provocative collections. This sort of thing is almost unthinkable in the digital age of social media and Instagram.
Thus, the premiere of Reiner Holzemer's documentary film Martin Margiela in His Own Words had the fashion cognoscenti delirious at the thought they might see 62-year-old Margiela on screen and even speaking.
