All 270 lots were sold and yielded a total take of almost 2 million euros, including a spring 1990 wool suit that commanded 101,400 euros, touted as a new world record for a piece by the designer.

With its sparse walls, exposed pipes, and undressed mannequins, Maison Martin Margiela looks more like a working artist’s loft than the New York outpost of a major Belgian designer. Staff in ...

Born in Belgium, Martens honed his skills as a master designer at Martin Margiela’s alma mater, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. Martens went on to work for Jean Paul Gaultier ...

what might have made them more self-conscious was knowing they would be measured against Martin Margiela’s memorable Pitti collection at Teatro Puccini. That fall 2006 show rendered all in white ...

Belgian designer Glenn Martens was unveiled Wednesday as the successor to John Galliano as creative director of French ...

Elsewhere, there are blockbuster fashion exhibitions at the V&A and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (the latter will be celebrated with the 2025 Met Gala in May), and a vast auction of the ...

The news last month that an unprecedented auction of Martin Margiela’s early work was coming to Paris generated part enthusiasm, part curiosity — and full virality on social media. It was ...