---
name: "Martin Margiela"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/martin-margiela"
fi1m_id: "martin-margiela"
imdb_id: "nm0546676"
tmdb_id: 1970684
wikidata_id: "Q978265"
roles: ["Costume designer"]
born: "4 September 1957"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T02:48:31.998868+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Martin Margiela

## Identity

Martin Margiela

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/martin-margiela
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** martin-margiela
- **IMDb ID:** nm0546676
- **TMDB ID:** 1970684
- **Wikidata ID:** Q978265
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Margiela, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q978265, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0546676/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1970684

Costume designer. Born 4 September 1957 in Genk, Belgium.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Born:** 4 September 1957, Genk, Belgium
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Margiela, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q978265, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0546676/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1970684

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*The Pillow Book*](https://film.one/film/the-pillow-book.md) (64)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Martin Margiela is a Belgian fashion designer and founder of the luxury fashion house Maison Margiela. He is credited as one of the costume designers on Peter Greenaway's film *The Pillow Book* (1996), alongside Dien van Straalen and Koji Tatsuno.

Margiela graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and worked as an assistant to Jean Paul Gaultier before establishing his own label in 1988. He maintained a low public profile throughout his fashion career, avoiding interviews and photographs. After retiring from fashion in 2009, he has worked as an artist.

*Sources: imdb.com, shotonwhat.com, lepetitarchive.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Pillow Book* (1995), Fi1m 64, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-pillow-book.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Pillow Book* (1995), Costume Design — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/the-pillow-book.md)

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