Think there are only so many ways you can rework a wardrobe staple? At MM6 Maison Margiela, the resort collection was all about looking at garments from a different angle — 90 degrees to be precise.
Slipdresses were turned sideways, jackets had a slash in the back to turn them into cold-shoulder tops and dresses, and jeans and denim skirts ended up with feathering at the tip and a back pocket on the front.
While these were clever distortions, the pragmatic MM6 approach remained. Clothes were even smarter for the fact you could wear many of them the so-called normal way by unfastening a discreet white button.
When it came to menswear staples, the twist was having two different garments on the front and back. Handsome hybrids included a smart camel Crombie coat fused with a beige trench, or a nylon bomber blouson with a denim jacket.
Throughout, details nodded to works in progress, with a gingham check distorted as if caught mid-twist on a top, a white top cinched at the waist with packing tape and a blazer’s inner construction exposed thanks to a sheer back.
Nods to the Margiela vernacular and past MM6 designs were lightly distilled throughout, with a palm tree print “salvaged from a long-forgotten CD-ROM” according to the collection notes, a 2000s holster bag revisited in leather or a leather keyholder necklace.
They played into the idea that a classic is something you can make work — one way or another.