Editor’s Notice: We proceed our custom of increasing the Vogue Runway archive by digitizing collections initially shot on movie, with a quartet of exhibits from Miu Miu, which had back-to-back hits in 2023 with the pantless look and neo-prep polo seems to be. This spring 1998 assortment was initially offered in Milan in October 1997.
The origins of Miu Miu’s spring 1998 assortment was associated in a 1995 Vogue profile of Miuccia Prada. In the future, reported the journal, the designer, her husband Patrizio Bertelli, and the workforce “had been sitting round reminiscing in regards to the hippie garments Miuccia wore within the Seventies and the way a lot enjoyable it will be to put on them now, when somebody prompt producing them in-house. Two months later Miuccia had created a whole assortment of fringed suede shoulder luggage, gauzy ruffled clothes, deerskin maxi skirts, and rawhide moccasins.”
This context appears significantly related as a result of the present opened with a laced corset high that appeared to nod to an iconic Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche design of 1977. The Frenchman confirmed it within the context of a boho reverie of full, swirling skirts. Prada latched on to the Left Financial institution vibe and took it in an imaginative, but extra utilitarian route. Miu Miu’s bustier was paired with sailor-style button-front cropped pants in a summer-camp palette of khakis and blues.
Boy Scout belts and ponyskin waist pouches punctuated lingerie clothes appliquéd with child-like shapes of cherries, hearts, geese, reindeer, and palms. There was additionally a cross sew print of an ice cream cone. This deliciousness was adopted by a gaggle of candy-colored cotton seems to be, some with rick-rack trim, in maraschino pink, blueberry, and licorice, together with a gaggle of black seems to be that includes metallic “sprinkles.” For the finale there have been satin ensembles in jewel tones, some with a little bit of pouf on the sleeve or the skirt, others with half aprons. Signature Miu Miu through-and-through, it fulfilled the model’s mission, stated Vogue, of capturing “the really eccentric facet of Miuccia.”
