The very fact that the celebrated genius Fashion Designer Martin Margiela  has co-operated with the making of a documentary on his life and work is totally unimaginable .  He has never taken a bow at any of hs catwalk shows, posed for a picture, or sat down for an interview. In fact, during his time at Maison Martin Margiela, all interviews were conducted over fax machine in a collective, third-person “we”. 

Now filmmaker Reiner Holzemer (he made Dries, the Dries Van Noten documentary) has Margiela talks candidly for the very first time about his 20 years in fashion.  Albeit he never shows his face in camera. 

Margiela is no longer part of his eponymous brand and John Galliano has stepped into the role of Creative director.

Here then is the first glimpse of Martin Margiela : In His Own Words that the distributor DogWoof is releasing on VID/DVD very soon.