Maison Martin Margiela book

This year’s must-buy fashion book comes courtesy of fashion’s most mysterious designer, the enigmatic Martin Margiela. How delicious is the cover?!

Graduating from Antwerp’s Royal Academy of Fine Arts in the 1980s, Martin Margiela (and his contemporaries in the Antwerp Six) transformed fashion with his aggressive restatement of traditional fashion design and a polemical approach to luxury trends. Working first with the house of Gaultier, Margiela absorbed the radical design of Japanese deconstruction, making it wholly his own with the founding of his own label in 1988. Margiela propounds a singular, enigmatic look, moving beyond the recognizable tropes of deconstruction—a monochromatic palette, outsized garments, non-traditional fabrics, exposed seams, or roughly appliquéd details—to develop a fully considered worldview, one with elegance, mystery, and menace in equal measure. This book provides an inside look at the design process from a craftsman who creates pieces prized for their originality, delicacy, and daring. In the spirit of Margiela’s garments, the book is a work of art in itself, designed exclusively by Margiela and complete with silver inks, ribbon markers, a variety of lush paper types, twelve booklets, and an embroidered white-linen cover. A truly intimate look into the house’s unique and singular world, this book celebrates the creative genius and vision that is Maison Martin Margiela.

Written and designed by Maison Martin Margiela / Essay contributions by Jean-Paul Gaultier, Carine Roitfeld, Andree Putman and Vanessa Beecroft / Available from selected booksellers and Maison Martin Margiela boutiques worldwide /

In NZ, selected Margiela is stocked by Zambesi