Fashion’s Creative Revival Is Finally Here

PARIS — With designer debuts at Celine and Maison Margiela, this was a much-anticipated couture week in Paris. Both Michael Rider’s return to Celine and Glenn Martens’ first couture show, which Margiela calls Artisanal, underscored that there is latent creative energy in fashion that is ready to be released if we give designers the space to do so.

BoF’s Tim Blanks praised Martens’ collection for its contradictions: “assault and seduction, opulence and austerity,” calling Martens…