2022 was undoubtedly one of the biggest years in fashion. From Y2K trends to exciting fashion weeks, debuts, and fashion scandals, fashion was bigger and more intense. 2021 closed off with a bang, with Zendaya winning the CFDA Fashion Icon Award. She was the youngest person ever to do so. (FYI, Lenny Kravitz is the honoree recipient of the 2022 Fashion Icon Award). This year showed us from the start that it was going to be massive. Barely two months into the year, Glenn Martens established himself as the breakout designer of the year.

Martens became the acclaimed unofficial designer of FoxYe (RIP to Julia Fox and Kanye). Ye pulled Glenn’s SS22 Diesel designs for his ex-beau on their infamous second date. Next, Glenn Martens presented his collection for Jean Paul Gaultier’s spring 2022 couture at Paris Fashion Week. Martens is the second guest couturier to do so in a series of planned seasonal takeovers of the brand. Glenn put out two of the fashion week season’s most memorable collections. This includes the one at Y/Project, a label on which he’s built his reputation over the past nine years. The second was for Jean Paul Gaultier, authoring his first-ever haute couture collection as a guest designer for the fabled Parisian house.

“Gaultier was one of the greatest inventors in fashion history, and I took the things that touched me and tried to reinvent them in a Y/Project way,”
– Glenn Martens