The Paris-based label is owned by Renzo Rosso, the founder of Diesel, and Martens will continue to design Diesel alongside Maison Margiela.
Milan fashion week show featured spraypainting by 7,000 graffiti artists – and impossibly low bumster jeans.
He will graduate from denim to haute couture as the new creative director of Maison Margiela, the house founded by the avant garde designer Martin Margiela and more recently directed by John Galliano.
The people who wore Diesel’s low-rise jeans to go clubbing in the 2000s were no longer going clubbing, nor wearing cutting-edge denim.
Maison Margiela, the most cutting-edge couture house in Paris, will give Martens scope to elevate his iconoclastic fashion ideas to the highest level.
