It's a Make or Break Season, says The New York Times

Learn about how McDonald's is helping make Duckie Brown's upcoming fashion show possible from The New York Times..

Eric Wilson's "The Make or Break Season" article for The Times' spades into how
the age of the young designer may be coming to a close due to the recent economic downturn.

I apologize for bringing up the subject of $$$ and the recession repeatedly — but it's real, people, shit's
fucked up all around everyone. I don't really care if what I say sounds cliché. And more people will
continue to lose their jobs and no one really knows when it might get better, so watch your money,
know who you're supporting. It matters.

M-M-MMMargiela

A fellow fashion follower expressed about the this year’s Maison Martin Margiela fall collection with two words and one grimaced face: “It’s ugly,” she said. And while you could argue it is… “ugly,” its disputable that this same ugliness is just the right ugly we need in fashion. The designs are conceptual, dramatic, unforgettable and undeniably fresh — is that not what makes most collections successful?

Designer Martin Margiela preps us with a vision we’d probably start getting used to now, so 15 years down the line we’re comfortable with idea of wigs on our shoulders, body conscious nude bodysuits and plastic-bag bathing suits, because it’ll probably take that long for the mainstream to get pick up the fashion concepts. Today’s ragged and unfinished works can find trail sources of inspiration to 80s Margiela collections; who knows, we might owe the inspiration behind body conscious, architecturally protective wear of the future to today’s Margiela collections.

This Monday marked the 20th anniversary of the Margiela house, started up by the then 31-year old, former Jean Paul Gaultier assistant, Belgian designer of the Antwerp 6 Martin Margiela — that doesn’t mean there’s any planned celebration, though. In fact, there’s been a lot of recent chatter about Margiela actually planning his leave of the house. The New York Times article, "Fashion's Invisible Man," delves into the elusive Mr. Margiela’s actual role at MMM and troubles with creative control.

Shop MMM men and womenswear at Browns, Net-A-Porter and The Corner.