Life doesn’t always fit together perfectly, but MM6’s new bags do. Called the Trois 6, the collection consists of three bags that interlock like puzzle pieces. They sit on a shelf like a sculpture and separate to become cute, abstract shaped satchels. The bag trio is a good metaphor for the MM6 way of working, an anonymous collective of designers finding ways to make the mundane magical that results in one MM6 vision.
This season, the brief is really about togetherness—of people and of their closets. MM6 has long made great tailoring and there are cream blazers and wide-leg trousers to love here. But as the collection grows it includes new categories. Sweatshirts and spliced-together tees, not really staples of the MM6 world, have come to the fore in slouchy casual styling. Button-down shirts, jeans, and jean jackets have been given the MM6 spin by cutting straight across the shoulders and creating a flat, two-dimensional shape that fastens straight up from front to back. Brought alive by the body, the silhouette sits back on the neck, almost like a Cristobal Balenciaga couture shape, and hikes up a little around the abdomen. Weird, but not unflattering. Anchored by chunky shoes and punctuated by the occasional stretch bandeau top or bike short, the look is all about proportion play.
The collection lookbook reinforces the idea that this is a wardrobe for play. Photographed in front of a French nightclub, models in rugged mullets pose like disinterested partiers waiting for approval to get inside. They look insouciantly cool in silver foil jeans, a circular poncho printed with a photograph of a Parisian street reflected in an MM6 metal earring, and pillow case-inspired bias lace tops. These are basic clothes for a non-basic time.
