Martin Margiela Documentary - The Artist Is Absent

“I knew he could do something great,” says Jean Paul Gaultier about famously incognito designer Martin Margiela in The Artist Is Absent, a new documentary about the Belgian couturier. But rather than take Gaultier’s word for it, you can see Margiela’s greatness yourself in the whole 12-minute film now streaming online.

Originally screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, the short traces the history of the celebrated designer, from his deconstructionist days in the ’90s to the end of his reign in the mid-’00´s.