In 2018, the home of Martin Margiela is 20 years old. One of the most mysterious and unconventional enterprises of modern fashion.

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In 1988, Margiela met Jenny Meirens, the owner of a designer clothing boutique in Brussels. She saw in an unknown Belgian "the most talented young designer she had ever seen." Together they founded Maison Martin Margiela, and the next year they held their debut show of SS 1989. During his work, Marghela managed to tailor clothes from cards, posters, socks, false eyelashes and fur hats, decorated the body with badminton balls, created a bag from a motorcycle helmet. Two exhibitions in the spring of 2018 will tell all about the secrets of the Belgian House.

Margiela / Galliera, 1989-2009. The grandiose and first Parisian retrospective devoted to the Belgian fashion designer presents his career as a couturier from spring-summer 1989 to spring-summer 2009. Martin Marzhela (born in 1957 in Leuven) in 1990 graduated from the faculty of fashion at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. From 1984 to 1987 he worked in the team of Jean-Paul Gautier. Margiela's conceptual approach immediately distinguished him from his contemporaries. His design method assumed to display everything, all the hidden parts of the product: the lining, to expose the seams, to show the backboard shoulders, etc. Visitors to the exhibition will see the famous Oversized collection, Barbie Collection, Artisanal and Replica.

Until now, Margiela is the creator of "faceless", the master who does interviews, and whose clothes came from a simple white label, devoid of any brand name. Martin Margiela promoted anonymity, use white color in a variety of shades, and the first to carry out parade in strange places: parking lots, warehouses, subway stations or abandoned wasteland. The exhibition brought together more than 100 models, video shows, archival documents. Due to the curator fashion historian Olivier Sayar Margiela / Galliera give non-trivial look at the creative genius designer. • Palais Galliera, Paris, March 3 - July 15.

Margiela: the Hermes years. The exhibition, which was shown in 2017 by the Antwerp Fashion Museum, will be seen in 2018 by Parisians. It is dedicated to the period from 1997 to 2003, when Martin Margaret served as art director of the House of Hermès. The public will also see the collections of the brand itself and the items released in those years by its own Maison Martin Margiela. • Museum of Decorative and Applied Arts, March 22 - September 2.

MMM - Ligne 13 Wallpaper, Dummy Door, Maison Martin Margiela, 2010.