MM6 MAISON MARGIELA FW24 at Milan Fashion Week

MM6 MAISON MARGIELA FW24 / Fall Winter 2024 at Milan Fashion Week

Abstract is the way MM6 approaches the seasonal exercise of devising pieces of a wardrobe, abstraction being the result of a certain bluntness, of an utterly non-narrative sense of matter-of-factness, of a twisted brand of straightforwardness.

Everything is what it is – a jacket, a cardigan, a coat – and yet it is not exactly as it should be, thus subject to getting a new meaning, another function, a twist of fate. Here, slits under the armhole allow the arms to pass through, and a cardigan to turn into a cape. There, a raincoat materializes in mustard colored denim.

Quilting migrates from inside to outside, and back pockets land on a pair of lurid leggings. Further still, the length of a jacket is deliberately odd, inducing one to quiz: is it a dress or a piece of outerwear? A lining skirt, meanwhile, gets scissored to perilous shortness. The result, overall, is perfectly plain and yet rather alien.

Abstraction, this MM6 MAISON MARGIELA FW24, is front and center as a pillowcase that becomes a top, the print an exact replica of the one found on pillows in the hotel where the MM6 team usually stays during their trips. Abstraction, however, this season also comes with the apparent impression of being damned. Damned as in raised shoulderlines for hunched postures. Damned as in zippers that grow in number. Damned as in a concert graphic repeatedly hammered from tailoring to underpinnings. Damned as in outfits that are graphic like geometric statements, as bauhaus contraptions of angles and lines. Damned as total black, too.

Abstraction is expressed in the idea of open-ended clothing, in playing with textures, repeating pieces in different fabrications to reassess their value, while shifting it. Abstraction, ultimately, translates in a relentless play with length and width, as the pureness of the geometric forms allows a certain radicality of silhouette.

Camionneur cardigans and bodysuits, as well as key holders as neck pendants riff of the history of the Maison.

Accessories further delve into the realm of abstraction: irregularly shaped boots like hand-drawn comic book feet; blunt grafts of boots and loafers developed for the first time in collaboration with Dr. Martens, the cult british brand. Fortune cookie bags, pillow bags and colored safety pins.

Abstraction, finally, materializes within the suffused softness of a carpeted room, walls dematerialized by floaty curtains, time suspended into neutral calm, slashed by a damned soundscore.

MM6 Maison Margiela and Dr. Martens reveal a footwear capsule during MM6 Fall Winter 2024 runway show during Milan Fashion Week.

The capsule Collection of MM6 Maison Margiela and Dr. Martens is part of a collaboration between British brand Dr. Martens, known for their comfortable, durable, and instantly recognisable boots, and MM6 Maison Margiela, renowned for conceptual all-gender wardrobe essentials. Several pairs of the iconic footwear brand’s styles will tread the runway on February 22nd at the MM6 Fall Winter 2024 show.

The capsule designs and details are yet to be disclosed. The MM6 Maison Margiela x Dr. Martens capsule footwear collection will be available in select stores from December 2024.