Show Notes: Miu Miu Spring Summer 2025
Miuccia Prada sent out a collection modelled after the irreverence and innocence of youths.
When: October 1, 2024
The venue: Miuccia Prada staged her latest show once more at Paris' Palais D’Iena - one of the architect Auguste Perret’s masterpieces, built in the 1930s and which now serves as the head office of the French city's Economic, Social and Environmental Council by day.
For this occasion however, the space more resembled a printer's office - the set had video screens and whirring conveyor belts carrying fictional newspapers - the work of Polish artist Goshka Macuga, whose work combines art, history, and politics, using archives and research to explore how we remember and tell stories about the past.
The takeaway: While Miu Miu's Fall Winter 2024 collection explored women's lived experiences across a wide variety of age groups, the latest Spring Summer 2025 collection zoomed in on early youth - Mrs Prada terms these formative years as a "period of absolute truth".
What does she mean? The way Mrs Prada sees it, people, especially childeren, tend to be honest to themselves and their ideals - then they get older and reach a point where they start to self-censor in a bid to fit in with society or their peers.
This explains the seemingly haphazard styling; the collection featured a mix of child-like elements like bloomers, and pinafores, alongside pleated skirts, diner dresses, and retro windbreakers, creating a disjointed blend of styles that left viewers questioning the intended occasion and the wearer’s intent - exactly the effect the designer is known for, and wanted to achieve here.
Pile on the belts!
It also accounts for the mixed and diverse runway cast, including surprise appearances by Hilary Swank and Willem Dafoe (the latter last appeared on the designer's Fall Winter 2012 show for her other label, Prada).
“Wearing things in the wrong way - it was a way of being spontaneous," said Mrs Prada in interviews after the show. If anything, the so-wrong-its-right irreverence seen at Miu Miu could also be read as a way to battle misinformation and algorithmic ways of dressing (a topic the designer also addressed at the latest Prada show).
New styling tricks: tie a sweater around your waist like a belt.
Take some cues from the show: throw on three totally disparate belts if you feel like it, pair toeless leg warmers with pumps, or wrap a sweater around your waist as if it's a belt; dress however you like!
Miu Miu offered a sleeker, more editorial take on Y2K's more-is-more styling.
The items we're eyeing: The patent leather mini skirts and coats (especially the pink one here), the gauzy white cotton dresses and skirts, the pieces sporting '70s psychedelic prints, the ultra cropped sports jackets, and the cute flower power belts.
The looks: