, sent a few emails vouching for the director. The film was completed just 18 months after they first met. But Margiela could be something of a difficult subject . Holzemer purposefully did not push too hard on anything “negative,” maintaining “a certain sensitivity”.“We started shooting four days after we met for the first time,” says Holzemer. “He felt the respect from our side, in his work and his person, and he felt I respected his anonymity.
“Some things are still painful for [Margiela], and he’s a person who reacts physically to negative experiences,” he says. “I think in a way he loves to have things in harmony. If it’s too negative for him, he gets a physical reaction. It took him a whole year to get rid of his physical problems after he quit the job, and I said that of course I wanted to talk about those experiences. But I think he avoided trying to encounter those experiences, because they were very painful for him.
Margiela.