Year in Fashion 2009

In an era when Ungaro appoints Lindsay Lohan as artistic adviser, is there room in fashion for a designer so press-averse he's never been publicly photographed? Martin Margiela gave us his answer when he officially bowed out of his eponymous Maison this year. Of course, he didn't deliver the news himself. It fell to Renzo Rosso, MMM's majority owner since 2002, to confirm that Margiela had left the building and been replaced by a team. Fashion watchers had already suspected as much—Style.com noted that Margiela's "inimitable dialogue of excellence, intellectual challenge, and wit" was absent from the house's Fall 2009 showing. It's fitting that a designer

Empty Maison Syndrome

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