Maybe now that McQueen has passed, we'll learn our lesson and start appreciating our fashion visionaries a bit more while they're still living. 1stdibs.com and Resurrection are definitely leading that charge with their exclusive Maison Martin Margiela sale, going on now through March 31. Spanning designs from 1989-2009, the collection includes some 300 of his most iconic designs, including the smartly conceptual glove vest above. (Yes. It's already sold out.) And they were all left behind by one unlikely woman.

The collection was culled from the closet of the late, Albuquerque-born Martha Berger, who was a meticulous collector. But, as friends told the San Francisco Gate after she passed, she wasn't exactly the wealthy socialite or art snob you might expect. She'd worked as a waitress and tried her hand at writing. And when she died she was living along and making ends meet as a college textbook editor. But, while she might have drifted between day jobs, she clearly found her calling in her zest for fashion design. In fact, many of the 1,000 or so Margiela pieces she left behind in her Koreatown apartment when she died two years ago were still in the original packaging, untouched but expertly preserved.

all images via 1stdibs.com