The announcement of the designer’s departure comes in the middle of Fashion Week.
Glenn Martens, who has been at the helm of the brand since 2013, is leaving the creative direction of Y/Project. The brand announced its separation from the Belgian designer in an official press release published this Friday, September 6. “Y/Project thanks Glenn for his unique contribution and wishes him the best for the future,” it reads. The name of his successor has not yet been announced. Does this announcement foreshadow a new game of musical chairs to come?
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Glenn Martens, an extraordinary career
He was never meant to work in fashion. Born in Bruges in 1983, Glenn Martens dreamed of working in the art world. Top of his class at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, he nevertheless joined the house of Jean Paul Gaultier as a junior designer for the women’s pre-collections. A few years later, he joined Y/Project. He started as first assistant to Yohan Serfaty, who founded the brand with Gilles Elalouf, its current general manager. After Yohan Serfaty passed away in 2013, Glenn Martens took over as head of creation. Although the brand was initially designed for men, the Belgian designer set himself the challenge of designing collections suitable for both sexes. A clever mix of streetwear, humor and cleverly studied construction and deconstruction games, his aesthetic is recognizable among thousands. In…
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