Martin Margiela returns to be talked about himself with the new documentary film, this time "In His Own Words".

“Have you said everything you wanted to say in fashion?”

“No.”

These words are the end of the most anticipated fashion documentary of the year: “Martin Margiela: In His Own Words”.
Eleven years after he left the world of fashion, Martin Margiela tells his whole hystory, for the first time with his voice: from his beginnings as assistant to Jean Paul Gaultier, to the period as creative director of Hermès, until the foundation of his brand.

In order to keep the fans up to date about the release of the film in the various countries, an instagram page was created for the news about the Belgian designer‘s documentary, presented at the Doc NYC film festival in the last November. The film has been made available on Danish and Irish streaming platforms, while tomorrow 10th April will be the turn of the United Kingdom.
At the beginning of May it will exceptionally be broadcast in two cinemas in Belgium, in Brussels and in Antwerp. There is great anticipation since the release dates of the documentary in the various countries are communicated from time to time via posts on the official instragram account with little advance.

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The direction of the film has been entrusted to Reiner Holzemer, also director of the 2007 documentary “Dries” about the designer Dries Van Noten. The film, shot in 2019, doesn’t tell about where the mysterious Belgian designer is or what he could do in 2020, but it’s a 20 years’s tribut (1989 – 2009) in which Margiela managed his label. Twenty years of fashion marked by creativity and silence with very few interviews and photos.

The shoot took about 42 days, says Holzemer, in which Margiela talks about himself and his greatest successes, starting from the last fashion show in 2009 and going back in chronological sense, focusing on 70 of the 110 pieces of his collections present in his exhibition at Galliera Palace in Paris. For the occasion, the director interviewed lots of friends of the designer, fashion editors, collaborators and even John Paul Gaultier.
The film tries to communicate how Martin Margiela is the initiator of everything that today is called “contemporary fashion“, of his instinct to go beyond the creative limits imposed on time and the appearance that a fashion brand could have.

Martin Margiela lets his fans enter his private life for the first time, talking about his childhood in Genk, Belgium, and showing his first sketchbooks, although never showing his face and keeping the veil of mystery that has always distinguished him.

The film ends with the faces of Raf Simons and Rick Owens admiring the installation in the Margiela’s exhibition at Palazzo Galliera in Paris, highlighting once again the gratitude towards the genius of Martin Margiela.

We can deduce that the film, contrary to what might have been expected, won’t have big twists and won’t bare the famous Belgian designer, even if it has been 11 years since his retirement. Maybe it’s better like this, Holzemer allows us to keep alive Martin’s memory as a hero of the fashion world, without any defect, any tension, any negativity; only good memories and the awareness that the heart behind the Margiela universe is still beating.

We just have to wait for the release of the documentary- film in Italy, now can only watch the trailer!