MANIFESTO

#61

ART NOW

THE EXISTING NEW

2022.03.09

By MADDALENA IODICE

Miuccia Prada shows us when fashion becomes a style transcending time and the art of re-engaging with the existing to create meaningful novelty.

The Fall/Winter 2022 Miu Miu collection Miuccia Prada unveils her antidote to meaningless novelty and quotes last season incomparable echo, creating clothes formed from the same codes. Indeed Miuccia uses the existing to create the new as the Spring/Summer 2022 impactful silhouette becomes a starting point for an idea worthy of reexamination, contemplation, expansion. Methodologies are re-applied to new clothing forms, re-engaging with concepts that still feel of purpose. Proportions find new balance, and Upcycled leather gets new shapes as oversized embroidered coats are worn on impalpable lingerie elements, while tennis-sporty obsession is rendered through brief pleated skirts and argyle knits. Miu Miu girlishness, such a fundamental part of the brand persona, infuses a casting spectrum made of different identities free from gender binaries, enhancing Miu Miu’s invitation to interpret a style with our own sense of self and reminding us what the wise art of re-work is. When an idea becomes a mindset, it can last for more than a fleeting moment. 

“A power can be found in girlishness and femininity, a strength in tenderness, a wisdom in youth.”

-MIU MIU FALL WINTER 2022

RIVE DROITE

SAINT LAURENT BY
VANESSA BEECROFT

2023.02.15

Saint Laurent invites Vanessa Beecroft to photograph the Spring 23 collection: a selection of 14 polaroids is on display at Rive Droite stores in Paris and Los Angeles. 

COLLECTION

Gucci Après-Ski

2022.12.15

The Maison presents the new Gucci Après-Ski collection, a selection of garments designed for a luxurious and refined high-altitude season told through a retro campaign inspired by the relaxed atmosphere of winter holidays.

JACQUEMUS

"LE RAPHIA"

2022.12.13

Under a relentless rain of raffia, that breaks in like a summer storm, Jacquemus presents its new Spring Summer 2023 collection, titled “Le Raphia”. The natural fiber becomes the undisputed star moving from its raw essence to being extremely luxurious.

CELINE

Age of Indieness

2022.12.12

Age of Indieness spotlights an aesthetic raised from the indie-sleaze era of the 1990s and early 2000s, Celine’s Winter 2023 collection, designed by Hedi Slimane, walk the catwalk at the Wiltern Theatre in the heart of Los Angeles.

Fashion

Chanel
Métiers d’Art

2022.12.09

The Chanel Métiers d’Art 2022/23 collection, presented under the artistic direction of Virginie Viard, parades at the Palais de Justice in Dakar, capital of Senegal. The show is unique in terms of creativity, and a tribute to the savoir-faire of the place.