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How does meaning change, and how do we keep memory alive? That’s the message that lies at the heart of Miu Miu’s Fall Winter 2024 collection, which offers a delightful array of familiar wardrobe staples spanning eras and various stages in life – showcased on one of the season’s most age-diverse cast of models when it was revealed in March this year. That is also a topic dear to the non-binary artist Cecile B. Evans, whose practice looks at the relationship between digital culture and the human condition and who was given carte blanche to create a film to accompany the runway show. We enter their headspace to unpack the surreal results and what truly matters in this age of social media.

The Los Angeles-born, Yale-educated portraitist confronts and critiques historical traditions that erase the black cultural experience, thereby bringing Old Master paintings by the likes of Velazquez, Rubens, Titian, Van Dyck or Holbein face to face with contemporary popular culture.