Photography by Robin Joris
SAINT LAURENT X MAISON GAINSBOURG
Maison Gainsbourg, in partnership with Saint Laurent, is opening its doors in Paris (7th). The experience is divided in two distinct sites : the first emblematic site is the historic house where Serge Gainsbourg lived for 22 years, at 5 bis rue de Verneuil.
Across the street, at number 14, is the museum retracing the artist’s life and career, including a bookshop-boutique and a café-piano-bar, Le Gainsbarre. Maison Gainsbourg’s museum is exhibiting some 450 original objects, including Serge Gainsbourg’s one-button women’s jacket with tennis stripes.
For the occasion, the iconic jacket was redesigned by Saint Laurent under the creative direction of Anthony Vaccarello. Available in SAINT LAURENT RIVE DROITE stores and in the Maison Gainsbourg’s boutique.
In 1981, Serge Gainsbourg discovered Stefan de Jaeger’s work and asked him to make a portrait of himself. The portrait is on display in Serge Gainsbourg’s historic house, while SAINT LAURENT RIVE DROITE Paris and Los Angeles will exhibit 2 of the artist’s original artworks named ‘Portraits of men’. Stefan de Jaeger was one of the first visual artists to use instant photography with Polaroid cameras to create large, painterly compositions. He took part in the Gainsbourg exhibition at the Cité de la Musique in 2008, which featured a portrait of Serge Gainsbourg, the visual for the exhibition’s official poster. As a nod to this partnership, the windows of the SAINT LAURENT RIVE DROITE boutiques will feature the same facade as the one on Serge Gainsbourg’s house.
An exclusive selection of vintage Serge Gainsbourg vinyls and books will be available for sale in stores and on YSL.COM.
MIU MIU WOMEN’S TALES COMMITTEE PROJECT
During the Venice Film Festival's "Giornate degli Autori" on September 3rd, Miu Miu premiered two new films as part of its Women’s Tales series: "Stane" by Croatian filmmaker Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović and "Eye two times mouth" by Mexican director Lila Aviles. A two-day conversation program on September 3rd and 4th, hosted by Penny Martin from The Gentlewoman, brings together directors, advocates, and advisors to discuss challenges and opportunities in female filmmaking. The event also marked the introduction of the new Miu Miu Women’s Tales Committee, consisting of influential figures like Ava DuVernay, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Catherine Martin, aimed at shaping the series' future direction and outreach efforts. Celebrating its second decade, Women’s Tales remains a unique platform for female filmmakers, with the Committee focusing on expanding its impact and narrative.
SAINT LAURENT FALL 23
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
