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

BOTTEGA VENETA

BEYOND BORDERS

2023.09.24

Matthieu Blazy takes us through a physical and metaphorical journey, far away, in search of something else, and at the same time intimate, discovering the self. Clothes transform, men and women disguise and change, blending.

LOUIS VUITTON

GHESQUIÈRE OCTOBER 2014

2023.09.20

The GO-14 bag, an acronym for Ghesquière October 2014, originated as one of the first creations to mark the designer’s debut at the head of the Louis Vuitton Maison.

NEWS

On Foot

2023.09.19

The exhibition On Foot, curated by Jonathan Anderson at Offer Waterman Gallery, will bring contemporary artists in dialogue with works of modern British Art and some interventions conceived by the designer himself.

EXHIBITION

MODE ET SPORT. D'UN PODIUM À L'AUTRE

2023.09.18

Ahead of the 2024 Olympics, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris presents Mode et Sport: from September 20th 2023 will be possible to discover the fascinating interconnections between fashion and sport from the ancient world to the present day.

V&A Museaum

FASHION MANIFESTO

2023.09.15

The first exhibition in the UK dedicated to the visionary couturier Gabrielle Coco Chanel – Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto will open on September 16th 2023 at the Victoria & Albert Museum.