The highly anticipated H&M Glenn Martens Collection launches across select H&M stores and online at hm.com, marking a transformative moment in contemporary fashion. Crafted in collaboration with Belgian designer Glenn Martens, the collection infuses traditional British heritage with Martens’s signature avant-garde style, resulting in a versatile lineup of sculptural, interactive garments and playful campaign visuals.
Glenn Martens: Visionary Designer Shaping Fashion in 2025
Glenn Martens—currently Creative Director of Maison Margiela and celebrated for his work with Diesel and Y/Project—is recognized for bridging irreverence with refinement, disrupting boundaries between luxury, art, and everyday essentials. His garments are constantly in flux, encouraging interaction and resisting conventional constraints. In his atelier, fashion becomes both an intellectual pursuit and an emotional experience — somehow radical, romantic, and ultramodern all at once.
British Heritage and Conceptual Reinvention
“I tried to get an aristocratic, British vibe into the collection based on shapes, fabrics and archetypes,” Martens…
explains. “From afar you might say, ok this is a really classic tweed jacket.
But once you have it in your hands, you can see that it is completely from a different world.” Materials such as rich tweeds, tartans, and Scottish boiled wool are reimagined with foil, wiring, and trompe l’oeil details, allowing wearers to customize silhouettes and create sculptural forms.
A double-breasted tweed coat, for example, features a blend of acrylic, wool, polyester, polyamide, cotton, and silk for innovative structure and comfort.
Martens’s approach allows pieces to be transformed—convertible pieces that change their structure, accentuating or concealing whichever part of the body you prefer, thanks to metallic finishes and concealed wiring…
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