VOGUE RUNWAY: MM6 MAISON MARGIELA Pre Fall 2022 / December 11, 2021 by Slow Waves

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You’d be hard pressed to guess that military uniforms were the reference for MM6’s design collective this season. That’s to the collection’s benefit. While pointed yokes pull from army detailing and a shearling miniskirt and jacket bring to mind classic aviator styles, broadly speaking, the pre-fall collection just consists of really good, really weird, and really ingenious garments.

That’s the MM6 strong suit: something surreal for the everyday. Modularity is a key obsession; here jackets are cut with two sets of arm holes so they can be worn like vests. Knits have holes at the hips to allow hands to slip through and into the pockets of voluminous trousers, and nylon is used to puff up blazers and MA-1 jackets to cushy new proportions. Meanwhile, trompe l’oeil and flat, two-dimensional shapes have been revived with printed mesh and a V-neck that harkens back to Martin’s spring 1998 flat collection. As the industry strains and contorts to imagine what life—and wardrobes—will look like in the summer of 2022, MM6 has the right intentions. Fashion is getting bolder, stranger, and wackier: It’s what MM6 has been working on all along.

By Steff Yotka

HYPEBEAST: MM6 MAISON MARGIELA FW21 / March 6, 2021 by Slow Waves

MM6 Maison Margiela Dabbles in Dual-Purpose Garments for FW21

Tranformable garments and Eastpak bags

By Jake Silbert

After debuting a genderless collection in Spring/Summer 2021, MM6 Maison Margiela is continuing to push convention aside with its Fall/Winter 2021 offering. Though the North Face collaboration isn’t returning, the sub-label is introducing another street-friendly joint effort, this time with Eastpak.

Described as “reverse mode” by the brand, this collection features a host of inverted apparel, worn inside-out, upside-down and sideways. Knitwear, shirts and dresses boast plenty of exposed seams, readjusted hems and head openings, plus the occasional portrait of Jean Sibelius, Maurice Ravel or Erik Satie, the latter of whom also partially informs the avant-garde soundtrack. Menswear and womenswear looks alike feature statement buttons and faux earrings of imitation pearl, granting contrasting notions of class to the upended tailoring, lab coats, denim layers and sweaters.

The Eastpak collaboration is similarly progressive, yielding five styles of Eastpak toteable in various hues. Each bag is entirely reversible and laden with scrappy patches bearing the name of each imprint.

MM6 MAISON MARGIELA AW19 Show / November 19, 2019 by Slow Waves

An entire wardrobe of MM6 classics reimagined in puffed-up, padded forms. Representative of the collective identity of the house, the Autumn-Winter 2019 collection is unified and mysterious; democratic and inclusive. Individual garments remain humble – never overridden by concept. Instead, the MM6 wardrobe, which encompasses ready-to-wear, accessories, footwear and jewellery for women, continues to evolve and build upon its own modern wearability.

MM6 MAISON MARGIELA Fall 18 Show / February 21, 2018 by Slow Waves

Never having darkened the door of the Mayfair public house—“pub” in local parlance—called the Running Horse, it’s impossible to speak of how radically different it was for the MM6 presentation. But given that the Margiela team had gone and foiled the entire place in glossy mirrored silver, Andy Warhol Factory-style (reflecting the label’s almost entirely metallic collection), it’s a pretty safe bet the regulars wouldn’t have recognized the old place.

There’s nothing new in the house of Margiela claiming a space as their own and conducting a fashion presentation there—a particularly memorable one took place in a ratty Parisian café by the Seine, as I seem to recall—but there was something quite prescient in referencing Warhol in this London pub.

It’s not the first time this season we’ve seen an artistic backdrop speak to a troubled, perplexing reflection of our world today, but there was certainly something clever in the jarring display we saw here; the silveriness of the parkas, down jackets, vests, and slip dresses might have spoken of a nostalgic idea of the space-age future, but the cracked, fractured surfaces of the clothes suggested that the dreamy notion of where we might end up was just as broken.

With its neat and concise execution of a theme, this latest MM6 offering suggests it’s being pushed to make a more conceptual statement now that the label is being creatively renewed, what with John Galliano’s incredible couture and menswear debut of late. (MM6 is designed by an in-house team.)

That was certainly true of the collection’s 500-strong limited-edition tee, which will be decorated with Polaroid images of the collection taken before the presentation started. It’s positively Warholian in idea and in execution.

See the full collection HERE

Text by Mark Holgate

COOL PRETTY COOL / February 9, 2017 by Slow Waves

Check out coolpretty.cool to see Melbourne model Mercy Sang wearing

Faustine Steinmetz and MM6 Maison Margiela from Slow Waves :)

Faustine Steinmetz Handwoven Mohair Coat

Faustine Steinmetz Mohair Top

MM6 Maison Margiela Denim Jacket

Read about Mercy HERE , images by Chloé Hill

i-D: yi ng was plucked from the explore page by samuel ross of a-cold-wall* / February 4, 2017 by Slow Waves

Yi Ng, by her own admission, is a sort of accidental stylist. "I just kind of just fell into it," she tells i-D. "My friends were photographers and often asked me to bring along pieces; I never knew what I stylist really did." By traditional industry standards, Yi's still very green. Still, she helped style one of the most anticipated streetwear shows on the LFWM calendar: Samuel Ross' A-COLD-WALL*. She described the experience as "quite surreal."

I think it's quite clear why your work is so engaging to so many people: it's very well timed — you've captured a feeling of now. "Trends" isn't my favourite word to use, but it's apt.

"That's the thing, you do have to pay attention to trends: to commerce. You don't want to be that artist struggling along by yourself, because nobody understands your work. It's all ego; to think that other people don't understand the complexity of your own vision. It's more likely you need a reality check, you have to be acknowledging feedback. The Internet has made it very easy to quantify that feedback in an objective way."