The Miu Miu Spring/Summer 2022 collection by Miuccia Prada is an exercise in references and in the search for reality, which uses the present to create innovation.
Basic elements are classic: trousers, sweaters, shirts, blazers, suits, and sheath dresses. Absolute archetypes of everyday wear that can be modified, subverted, and modulated. A new balance of proportions obtained by cutting garments, maintaining the credibility of each and modifying their relationship with the silhouette. Pants become miniskirts, sweaters and shirts reveal shapes. Edges are unfinished, left exposed to emphasize the spontaneity of these actions, while embroideries embellish dresses and suits, combining two different dimensions: daytime and evening. The collection thoroughly analyzes the fundamental reality of clothing. The needs and requirements of individuals, starting from what they wear, representing an amplification of the here and now, a focus on reality. “There is no frivolous invention or new fashion in this collection. These are classics. Clothing that allows you to think about more important things. Clothes are part of life, not its meaning. For me, the primary instinct is this: to mirror life.” (Miuccia Prada)
Relevant clippings:
If the pandemic did anything, it raised the bar on the garments in which we live, and the level at which they need to connect. Miuccia Prada got that, with a Miu Miu collection that merged the back-to-the-office quandary and Britney Spears circa “Baby One More Time” (that would be 1999)…. … Crop tops and skin have been a theme of the season, but never have they been used so effectively, and slyly, to grapple with the tension around the return to work, and the desire to redesign what that means and how it looks.
The New York Times
[…]the Milanese stylist has made a “summer bomb”, deliciously nerdy and outrageously sexy. In short, charming. Enough for any woman to project herself into this wardrobe.
Le Figaro
At Miu Miu, Miuccia Prada delivered one of the strongest and most exciting fashion statements of the season. With brutal scissoring, Prada brought new proportions to staid masculine and feminine classics, from jumpers to grey trousers, brilliantly highlighting how the smartest ideas are almost always the simplest.
Business of Fashion
A uniform for tomorrow, not yesterday.
The Cut
Miu Miu, Mrs Prada stands with a new generation intent subverting norms and inventing new ones on its own terms.
10 Magazine
[…] all that cutting in skirts and tops and waists beyond words makes every piece very sensual. And the result is a perfect tension between classics and reality.
Corriere della Sera
As always, stubbornly and happily against the tide, Miuccia Prada at Miu Miu declares that she does not want to do fashion … which obviously translates into a high-impact fashion proposal: one of the strongest in a scarce season, where theme and variation are calibrated in a perfect mechanism, and the choice of ordinary garments embeds experimentation in reality, subtracting fashion from the dimension of entertainment and restoring it to the dimension of life. That’s no mean feat.
Il Sole 24 Ore
The Miu Miu collection is very wearable … and it hasn’t been that effective for a long time.
La Repubblica