With its sparse walls, exposed pipes, and undressed mannequins, Maison Martin Margiela looks more like ... like a gold vest with chain-links of bottle caps, or a trenchcoat made from German ...

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 ...

Marking the first full MM6 men’s show, the clothes reimagined traditional masculine archetypes with a distinct Margiela twist. Linen was coated and rubberized to mimic black leather; a tuxedo ...