Martin Margiela: In His Own Words

Name: Martin Margiela: In His Own Words
Genre: Documentary
Released: August 14, 2020
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 70
Cast: Ania Martchenko, Carine Roitfeld, Cathy Horyn, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Kristina De Coninck

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Oscilloscope | Release Date (Streaming): August 14, 2020 | Not Rated

Starring: Ania Martchenko, Carine Roitfeld, Cathy Horyn, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Kristina De Coninck, Lidewij Edelkoort, Martin Margiela, Mika'Ela Fisher, Olivier Saillard

Summary: One of the most revolutionary and influential fashion designers of his time, Martin Margiela has remained an elusive figure the entirety of his decades-long career. From Jean Paul Gaultier’s assistant to creative director at Hermès to leading his own House, Margiela never showed his face publicly and avoided interviews, but reinventedOne of the most revolutionary and influential fashion designers of his time, Martin Margiela has remained an elusive figure the entirety of his decades-long career. From Jean Paul Gaultier’s assistant to creative director at Hermès to leading his own House, Margiela never showed his face publicly and avoided interviews, but reinvented fashion with his radical style through forty-one provocative collections. Now, for the first time, the “Banksy of fashion” reveals his drawings, notes, and personal items in this exclusive, intimate profile of his vision.… Expand

Director: Reiner Holzemer

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 90 min

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Stephanie Zacharek

Aug 10, 2020

Here, the effect of merely hearing his voice and watching his hands is so intimate that we walk away with an almost tactile sense of who Martin Margiela is, the way we confidently, yet only sort of, know what the man in the moon looks like. His mystery becomes our secret too. Read full review

The Observer (UK) Simran Hans

Aug 10, 2020

The use of the notoriously media-shy Margiela’s warm, serious spoken voice helps to create intimacy, even though we never see his face. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Matt Fagerholm

Aug 14, 2020

Like the director’s 2017 profile of Dries Van Noten, Martin Margiela: In His Own Words explores how its titular subject is driven by ideas rather than ego or a desire for stardom. Read full review

Jon Caramanica

Aug 13, 2020

It is a poem about the ways in which the speed and ubiquity demanded by the internet have squeezed certain creative wells dry, perhaps irreparably. Read full review

Jessica Kiang

Aug 14, 2020

The grandest irony to emerge is that despite its unquestionable sincerity, soft-spoken iconoclast Martin Margiela’s insistent non-image may yet turn out to be fashion’s canniest bit of image-making of all. Read full review

IndieWire Ryan Lattanzio

Aug 18, 2020

While Margiela’s visions likely deserve a more radical treatment onscreen, Holzemer’s film offers perhaps the most complete insight yet into one of fashion’s most elusive geniuses. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Aug 10, 2020

Reiner Holzemer has made a film that is intensely supportive and uncritical – as fashion documentaries tend to be – and to those of us who are outside the fashion world, it can be a bit opaque. Yet it is refreshing to hear creativity discussed with such seriousness and commitment. Read full review

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