MILAN — MM6 Maison Margiela will likely be a visitor designer on the upcoming version of Pitti Uomo, slated to run from Jan. 14 to 17 on the Fortezza da Basso in Florence, WWD has realized.
The model didn’t disclose the date and format of its fall 2025 presentation on the four-day truthful, past saying it is going to parade a menswear-only assortment.
“We’re honored and excited to be invited as Pitti Uomo’s visitor designer this coming January, as a part of the world’s most vital menswear vogue truthful. We intend to deliver the fashion and spirit of MM6, making a menswear venture particularly for Florence. After practically 20 years, we’re thrilled to return Maison Margiela to the Pitti stage and produce to the fore a recent menswear wardrobe that can resonate the angle, ideas and processes of MM6,” MM6 Maison Margiela’s design workforce shared in a press release.
The model will proceed to participate in Milan Girls’s Vogue Week.
Launched in 1997 and creatively helmed by a design workforce, MM6 Maison Margiela made its runway debut in 2012 throughout New York Vogue Week and has adopted a roving present schedule over time, parading its collections in New York, London and, most just lately, Milan. It joined the latter metropolis’s vogue week schedule in February 2020.
Two years later, for fall 2022, the model formally debuted a menswear assortment, which has been persistently unveiled on the catwalk alongside womenswear since then.
Hinged on Maison Margiela’s archives, oftentimes reinvented by a youthful lens, the model’s providing presently includes ready-to-wear, footwear, equipment and leather-based items. A horizontal line manufactured from tiny white stitches on the again of every garment has turn out to be its signature. Maison Margiela has been a part of Renzo Rosso’s OTB Group since 2002.
“The deliberate sense of provocation is nearly acquainted, as it’s a part of the essence of every MM6 piece,” mentioned Francesca Tacconi, particular occasions coordinator at Pitti Uomo’s organizing physique Pitti Immagine. “MM6 explores completely different postures and behaviors within the right here and now. They turn out to be symbols of internal nonconformity, and unbiased expressions of a wardrobe celebrating the sweetness and surprises of imperfection. To us, it looks like a return to origins rendered modern by the dialogue between deconstructed sartorialwear and attribute individuality,” she supplied.
The information comes lower than a month after the main menswear commerce truthful introduced Setchu, the model based and helmed by Satoshi Kuwata, as the opposite visitor designer for the January commerce present.
As visitor designer of Pitti Uomo, MM6 Maison Margiela follows within the footsteps of the likes of Marine Serre; S.S. Daley; ERL’s Eli Russell Linnetz; Martine Rose; Grace Wales Bonner, and Thebe Magugu. Former visitor manufacturers and designers displaying in Florence additionally included Magliano, Jil Sander; Y/Venture; JW Anderson; Roberto Cavalli and Craig Inexperienced, amongst others.
As the primary two bulletins construct up anticipation across the 107th version of the menswear commerce truthful, the total schedule of occasions is anticipated to be launched in November.
