Miu Miu

Spring/Summer 2012Ready-To-WearParis


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“THERE’s always sugar and spice at play at Miu Miu,” Vogue’s Harriet Quick said after this aftenoon’s show. “This was a really hilarious psycho drama. It was Kristen Stewart in Twilight meets Wednesday Addams meets Carrie – real B-movie, teenage vampires.”

There was the girlishness that we’ve seen elsewhere this week, but even younger than before, with full skirts and matching bra tops covered by little cloaks tied with velvet ribbons - all the innocence of Little Red Riding Hood but with red eyeshadow and wax-flattened hair implying that there’s some definite wolfery going on here too.

It started with austere grey A-line skirts with high fitted waists under black straightjacket blouses that crisscrossed the body – with pointed velvet mules and matching short handled bags, these were little girls dressing up, not knowing quite what was in store.

Then things started to heat up as a new silhouette took hold: finely pleated teeny weeny gym slips under long ruched tube waistbands over crisp cotton shirts, the tails of which were glimpsed under the flippy skirt. Purple A-line dresses were pulled in to smocked front panels and cut low enough to show off a bra top in contrasting blue.

Beautiful lace coats and dresses, some finely pleated and others overlaid in contrasting colours – grey on gold or red on tan, were accompanied by full-backed satin coats of palest pink or blue – a gathering of smocking between the shoulder blades reminding us of the true princess that the Miu Miu girl can be.

Leather boots of white with yellow roses twisting up them, or red growing up black, rose to mid calf from sculpted heels and then a collection of prints were patchworked together for coats and dresses that brought together the pyjama and upholstery trends we’ve seen about this week in a clutter of red and black and blue on white.

Only Miuccia Prada who could produce a show at the very end of a month long marathon of them - Miu Miu is widely considered to feel like the last day of term by the fashion crowd – that looks entirely fresh and generates a multitude of new ideas and puts everybody in a good mood.

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  1. Is this really the trend? Why do we buy this? What sways the decision for us?

    eli
    14 Oct 2011
    1. In reply to eli

      Yes, but the only negative I think is the 'Bright' coloured skirts. This has already become a 'Trend' in the UK

      Zara
      8 Nov 2011

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