Maison Margiela

Maison Margiela is a French luxury fashion house founded by Belgian designer Martin Margiela and Jenny Meirens in 1988 and headquartered in Paris

Margiela had studied fashion at the Royal Academy Of Antwerp and although he actually graduated a year earlier, in 1979.

during the 1980s Margiela and other Belgian designers such as the Antwerp six were inspired by deconstructive fashions introduced by Japanese avantgardists such as Rei kawakubo

In 1988, Martin launched his own self-titled design label Maison Martin Margiela with business partner and fellow designer Jenny Meirens  Initially working out of a Paris apartment, they opened their first store in an unmarked white space in Paris, also opening a small studio on 12 Leopoldstraat in Antwerp.

In 1994 the New York Times commented on the company's influence by writing that its "made-over flea-market clothes put an end to the conspicuous consumption [of the fashion industry] of the 1980s." That year Maison Martin Margiela debuted its first period pieces.

 In 1998, Maison Martin Margiela debuted a menswear collection, known as line 10.