Monday, September 17, 2007

Martin Margiela

...is a Belgian fashion designer. He studied at Antwerp's Royal Academy of Fine Arts, graduated 1980 and worked as a freelance designer for five years after graduation. Between 1985 and 1987 he worked for Jean Paul Gaultier, before showing his first collection under his own label in 1988.
Margiela has a store in the West Village in New York City and also sells at Barneys. In his store, sales people wear white lab coats.
Nicolas Ghesquiere, the designer of Balenciaga, has said on several occasions that he is a fan of Margiela and often wears Margiela's clothes.
D-squared and Margiela use the same Japanese distributor and thus their sample sales are held together in New York City.

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