For MM6 AVP SS25, standardized archetypes are reformulated to become “extra” ordinary, drawing on the archives to create easy, versatile looks with a twist.

A quietly conceptual ready-when-worn wardrobe works both with and counter to the notion of generic
foundational pieces. Familiar codes of dress are distorted to play up individuality. Classics are twisted, reconfigured, reassembled and recontextualized with seeming haphazardness. The clothes are shaped primarily by the wearer’s sensibility and attitude: playful design constructions and details lend themselves to multiple styling options.

Patches, visible stitching, washed-out colors and raw finishes, as well as treatments lifted from the archives — such as fringes, washed cotton and distressed silk — reconnect with the humanist authenticity of unfiltered pre-digital times. Perfect imperfection and the patina of time add layers of soul and texture.

Volumes are variously reduced or extended to create unexpected details, shapes and silhouettes. Slits that act as armholes, airy oversized volumes, and a camp archive souvenir shop palm tree print salvaged from a long-forgotten CD-ROM conjure a sense of summer.

Women’s:

Classics are open to interpretation as the wearer sees fit: trench coats, biker jackets, tailored pantsuits and fluid coats in distressed silk lining fabrics are slashed in back so an arm can slip through, rotating the garment 90° so that it twists naturally around the body and morphs into asymmetric tops and dresses with a surrealistic evening attitude. Sleeves dangle in front and back or are cinched with thin belts to create distinctive new draped volumes. Elsewhere, shapes are darted to evoke the fitting process or tied, for example on a simple white jersey t-shirt ruched with packaging tape like an ad hoc DIY belt.

Signature column silhouettes further distort perception, such as on a simple lingerie-style slip dress worn nonchalantly as a skirt with the top part folded down like an ersatz peplum, paired with a knitted tank top, its check motif deformed to slowly twist around the bust.

Ultra-brief silhouettes, such as denim mini skirts so short they might be mistaken for bum bags, create borderline moments, blurring notions of where accessories end and clothes begin.

Men’s:
Iconic menswear staples are elongated by panels, while cut-and-paste sections of garments appear in graphic combinations, creating bomber/denim jacket and coat/trench collage hybrids with mismatched fronts and backs, a concept that plays out more subtly in total looks of raw denim or fluid tailored jackets. The visual trickery carries over to pieces with contrasting inside-out back panels, such as on an impeccable minimalist beige summer suit, its inner construction exposed.

In an unexpected pared down take on the cowboy look, the Wild Rider uniform is revisited in gray-cast raw denim or a black leather jacket and pant ensemble with discreet tone-on-tone Western shirt over-stitching. Building on the Americana theme, preppy knits with Ivy League-style flocked graphics are casually paired with distressed workwear jackets and utilitarian cargo pants with a ’90s grunge feel.

A typically masculine accessory, an archival holster bag that originally was designed in signature white cotton canvas now makes a comeback in a plain black version to sling around the neck.

Meanwhile, the ongoing MM6 Maison Margiela and SALOMON collaboration for the first time embraces a true road-running storyline. Reversible bombers are taped with reflective seams, long stretch shorts sport raw hems, and the new Spectur 2 MM6 knitted sneaker was constructed without a plate for enhanced comfort when pounding pavements, its knit upper finished with a special coating designed to age and crack over time.