All 270 lots were sold and yielded a total take of almost 2 million euros, including a spring 1990 wool suit that commanded 101,400 euros, touted as a new world record for a piece by the designer.

Glenn Martens, known for his reconstructed denim and avant-garde silhouettes, is the new creative director of Maison Margiela ...

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 ...