Maison Margiela

Martin Margiela trained in Antwerp, assisted Jean Paul Gaultier, and founded his house in Paris in 1988 with Jenny Meirens. At the first show the models walked through red paint in split-toed Tabi boots and left their prints on the white cloth of the runway.

He never took a bow and kept his face out of the press. The label is a blank white tag held by four white stitches. MM6, from 1997, kept the thinking and made it easier to wear. He left in 2009.