Miuccia Prada draws together diverse groups – gangs of women – for the Miu Miu Fall/Winter 2021 fashion show. The result is a unique vision: a voyage through the mountains, a fashion show in the snow. A dream ‘Miu Miu Mountain Club’ is created, where models explore the landscape of Cortina d’Ampezzo – in the heart of Dolomites Alps – and are captured on film in a difficult and brave undertaking. It is about escape, about dreaming – making fantasy a reality. Bravery in endeavour is reflected by courage in clothing – they are dressed for the extreme. Garments can challenge perception and context. Outfits combine different intentions, different dreams and realities, to create different characters. Inside and outside, protective and seductive: intentions are multiple, like the diverse identities found within each woman. And, in turn, each individual is attracted to liked-minded personas, the single becoming the collective. They form alliances, kinships. And they walk together. The language of sportswear fuses with fashion. There are inherent tensions when these languages are combined – a dreamlike state, when the practical is romanced through exaggeration, when the fragile can be reinvented to become brave. The utilitarian can become beautiful and pleasurable; the decorative can suddenly have reason, new purpose. Padded sportswear borrows its satin and pastel colors from fantasies of lingerie, slip dresses are executed in heavy wools, studded with metal like imaginary armor – warrior lingerie. Strength and fragility, courage and aggression. The realities inside all our fantasies. Practical fantasies. The Miu Miu Fall/Winter 2021 film is created with M/M (Paris) and cinematographer Benjamin Kracun.
n° 63 - 12 March 2021