CHURCH’S X MIU MIU
For Fall/Winter 2023, Miu Miu is pleased to announce a collaboration with Church’s shoes, infusing the formality of the heritage brand with the free spirit the Miu Miu name represents. The launch is celebrated by a still and moving image campaign using a timelessly beautiful gentleman’s armchair, richly upholstered in archive Miu Miu fabric, as a stage.
Multiple positions and gestures are adopted by models wearing the Miu Miu ready-to-wear collection with the Church’s X Miu Miu brogue and double monk strap shoe. The comfort of the armchair and languor of the poses is in direct contrast to the polite and conventional perception of the designs.
Crafted in glossed brushed leather and in classic shades of black and tobacco the Church’s X Miu Miu shoes are rounded and broader in shape than the originals that inspire them. A malleable, non-slip and sporty moulded rubber sole replaces leather. The patterned serration that characterizes both styles is in place. Further rich detailing includes the Miu Miu logo on the tongues of the shoes and embossed into the sides of the soles and the Church’s X Miu Miu logo printed on the insoles. The double monk strap shoes are further embellished with the classic wing-tip motif that emphasizes the British foundations of Church’s.
Miu Miu’s signature play between the traditional and the contemporary is upheld. The reassurance of the familiar is at once celebrated and subverted – undone - to create something new.
Church's X Miu Miu products will be available in avant-première on miumiu.com from August 29 and in Miu Miu stores from September 6th .
CELINE HOMME PORTRAIT OF AN ACTOR
LEVON HAWKE
photographed by Hedi Slimane, as part of the PORTRAIT OF AN ACTOR series.
NEW YORK - JUNE 2023
LGN SS24 BACKSTAGE
Photography by Cole Fawcett
LDSS SS24 BACKSTAGE
Photography by Robin Joris Dullers
BLUEMARBLE SS24 BACKSTAGE
Photography by Cole Fawcett
BOTTER SS24 BACKSTAGE
Photography by Hanna Pallot
EGON LAB SS24 BACKSTAGE
Photography by Cole Fawcett
PRADA MEN SS24 - LIVE STREAMING
ARCADIE
In imagery exploring a modern hinterland between reality and surreality, Miu Miu celebrates the emblematic matelassé in two styles - the already-iconic Wander, and the newly-debuted Arcadie - embraced by Gigi Hadid and photographed by Steven Meisel.
Mythologized since Ancient Greece, Arcadie is a destination - an idealised scene, a vista of pleasure, idyllic and Elysian, embedded in nature.
Drawing inspiration from the life and spirit of the American artist Margaret Keane, Meisel evokes her instantly-recognizable aesthetic universe to reshape that of the Miu Miu heroine, an homage that fashions uncanny environs for these portraits capturing both Gigi and these Miu Miu accessories.
Likewise, Keane’s own indomitable character, her freedom, her story, is innately kindred to the unmistakable attitude of Miu Miu, encapsulated here in Gigi’s gestures, moods and emotions.
The everyday can be exceptional, the ordinary can become extraordinary.
The rich nature of these idealised spaces - brushstrokes textured and real - is matched by the intricacy of Miu Miu's characteristic matelassé. Fusing a modern lightness with traditions of leather craft, this hallmark Miu Miu material adds texture and depth to the duo of handbag styles.
In this series of stylized yet intimate and direct portraits alongside striking still-lives, Gigi gazes wide-eyed at us, playing both herself and her persona. Through a simple look, she invites us into this world, part imagined, part actualized, yet wholly Miu Miu.
Y/PROJECT FW23 BACKSTAGE
Photography by Hanna Pallot
HERMÈS FW23 BACKSTAGE
Photography by Hanna Pallot
ANN DEMEULEMEESTER FW23 BACKSTAGE
VALENTINO FW23 BACKSTAGE
ESTER MANAS FW23 BACKSTAGE
Photography by Hanna Pallot
VICTORIA BECKHAM FW23 BACKSTAGE
OFF-WHITE FW23 BACKSTAGE
Photography by Hanna Pallot
LOEWE FW23 BACKSTAGE
MARIE ADAM-LEENAERDT FW23 BACKSTAGE
Photography by Hanna Pallot
SL RIVE DROITE X LIN ZHIPENG (AKA NO.223)
Anthony Vaccarello invites Beijing photographer Lin Zhipeng aka No.223 for a unique exhibition in the Saint Laurent Rive Droite stores in Paris and Los Angeles.
Named "No.223" after the police character in Wong Kar-Wai's Chungking Express, Lin Zhipeng also embraces the Hong Kong director's poetic and dreamy atmosphere as well as the solitude and mystery of many of his characters.
No.223 offers his perspective on an alternative spirit and youth culture in an often conservative Chinese cultural context. His spontaneous photographs depict a young generation indulging in love and life, oscillating between jubilation and deep melancholy, playful sexuality and often the simple human need to be loved in an otherwise indifferent and ever-changing society.
Lin Zhipeng, aka No.223, delves into his intimate memories of loved ones across China, Tibet, Southeast Asia, Japan and Europe.
In the exhibition we find the works Skin in the Orange, 2018; A Fish Wish, 2019; Red Symbol, 2019; Water Ghosts, 2016. A selection of the artworks will be available for sale.
To mark the occasion a new fanzine will be available in stores.
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