For some, seeing a Maison Margiela Tabi shoe for the first time was the sartorial equivalent to tasting your first olive; from that first whiff you knew you were on a long and loving path together. For others, they discovered an immediate distaste that has kept them on other ends of the table (or department store) from the provocateur since they first met.
Many that work in fashion have found themselves falling into a middle camp, having seen their initial distrust quietly usurped by a growing fondness, which in some cases has developed into outright devotion.
