Miu Miu RTW Spring 2024

Miuccia Prada took her bow on the spring Miu Miu present with Fabio Zambernardi, as she did at Prada in Milan, paying tribute one final time to her longtime wingman. Zambernardi is now leaving his position as Prada and Miu Miu design director after greater than 40 years with the Italian vogue homes.

Prada wore a modern, tawny brown leather-based coat which had an uncommon characteristic: a black knit hood hanging from below the collar, shifting the perspective from Milanese institution stylish to one thing somewhat extra mysterious and edgy.

Her fascinating spring present was chockablock with such odd vogue bedfellows, like a petticoat with a blazer, or Neoprene shorts with a polo sweater and overcoat.

She had mashed up a wide range of archetypes — amongst them safety guards, surfers, schoolgirls, preppies and librarians — and gave the fashions nerdy glasses, colourful Band-Aids on their heels and toes, and matted or frizzled hair.

It felt like an anti-glamour assertion, though glamor was by no means distant. It was there within the chunky crystal necklace draped over the collar of a navy polo shirt; within the chunky heels shoved into multipocket purses, and the gleaming gold brocade sheath attire mangled up with enterprise shirts.

Miu Miu’s micro skirts and pants-free silhouettes proceed to affect many different runways, and Prada didn’t abandon these concepts, simply as she by no means actually lets go of borderline homely sweaters, right here styled below sparkly flapper attire, and good-looking leather-based or suede automotive jackets, right here tossed over swimming trunks or what have you ever.

The runway solid — which included actors Troye Sivan, Cailee Spaeny and Mame Bineta Sane — strengthened the sensation of character research, fairly than pattern mongering.

After the present, Prada was mobbed by well-wishers and reporters, who lobbed questions like “What’s vogue?” and “Are you wanting ahead to being a grandmother?”

Prada answered all of them gamely, typically elliptically, however ultimately she concluded: “I believe that the eye must be on the particular person.…Vogue counts for you personally if you wish to impress, otherwise you wish to be horny, otherwise you wish to be critical.”

As soon as once more, she laid out a bunch of fascinating garments for no matter temper strikes.

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