Fashion career profile

Glenn Martens

Glenn Martens is a Belgian fashion designer educated at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. His career links experimental design, denim and couture: he led Y/Project’s creative direction before becoming Diesel’s creative director in 2020 and joining Maison Margiela in January 2025. For a period he held creative roles at both Diesel and Maison Margiela, but the appointments had separate house scopes. Martens’s Diesel tenure concluded with the brand’s September 22, 2026 show; he remains creative director of Maison Margiela. That transition matters to the directory’s current-role display: Diesel is now a former appointment, not an active role. At Margiela, he continues a couture and material-led design practice, while his Diesel collections foregrounded denim, experimentation and public-facing runway formats. This profile keeps each appointment attached to its house and avoids treating parent-group performance or OTB-wide strategy as an individual brand result.

Role
Creative Director, Maison Margiela
Nationality
Belgian
Age
43
Career appointments
5
Fashion houses
4
Verified awards
1