Martin Margiela Influences Young Designers

There’s definitely something about Martin. Although fashion’s invisible man, Martin Margiela, made his final disappearing act back in 2009, the Belgian fashion maverick’s influence lives on, perpetuated by scores of alumni from the Paris-based house now scattered across the industry. RELATED CONTENT: Maison Margiela Fall 2015 >> Several of these made a splash during the fall shows in Paris, with Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski making her debut as women’s ready-to-wear designer at Hermès, Sébastien Meunier steering the Ann Demeulemeester brand in a more sultry direction, and Demna Gvasalia bringing a jolt of underground fashion thrills with his Vetements show, staged in a notorious gay sex club. “Probably the best education that these brilliant designers retain is to not think of fashion, but to think beyond that. There is something philosophical and sociological about what these talented Margiela graduates have to offer,” muses Paris-based headhunter Agnès Barret, who in 2006 founded her firm, Agent Secret, after working beside Margiela as his collection director, ultimately recruiting design directors for each of the lines demarcated by number on ghostly labels with their telltale white stitches. “Martin was like an artist who provided the outline sketch and asked everyone to contribute their vision to make it a masterpiece—something which is undoubtedly

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