Margiela's untrendiness, reclusiveness, and obsessive attention to structure are viewed as comfortingly French, even though he is actually Belgian.
Yet there are growing signs that 2014 could be the year that veganism – often viewed as the preserve of hippies, animal activists and health obsessives – stops being a niche dietary choice and gains new followers, and not just because of soon-forgotten resolutions.
They were viewed as either hysterical mobs to be patronised or, especially after the murder of John Lennon, obsessive loners to be feared.
Back then, his malevolent and obsessive quest to stem "the leaks, the leaks" at "any cost" was viewed as a sort of psychic illness; today, both the sentiment and the extralegal pursuit of leakers that followed is considered downright presidential.
Nowick is often viewed as a pest — too focused on minutiae, too rude or too odd — but lawmakers nevertheless rely on his obsessive attention to legislative detail.
Often viewed as bright but clumsy loners, children with Asperger syndrome have normal speech but appear socially inept and idiosyncratic, often developing an obsessive expertise in a single subject.
Booker is viewed as undecided.
Applicants are viewed as commodities.
TRIs, once viewed as useless in the process of searching for inhibitors for specific transporter proteins, are under renewed study as therapeutics not only for depression but also for obsessive-compulsive disorder, anhedonia, substance abuse, chronic pain, Parkinson's disease, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism, and obesity.
And he's just as obsessive as a hotelier.
