One of its effects was to focus attention on the clothes themselves, created by a team and credited to Maison Martin Margiela, aka MMM. And what intriguing clothes they were: Recall, for instance ...

This was a restrained MM6 collection, at times reminiscent of house founder Martin Margiela’s celebrated tenure at Hermès, felt in the demure pencil skirts and boxy, austere tunics in taupe ...