Editor’s Note: We continue our custom of broadening the Vogue Runway archive by digitizing collections initially shot on movie, with a quartet of programs from Miuwhich had back-to-back hits in 2023 with the pantless appearance and neo-prep polo looks. This spring 1998 collection was initially provided in Milan in October 1997.
The origins of Miu Miu’s spring 1998 collection was related in a 1995 Style profile of Miuccia Prada. One day, reported the publication, the designer, her hubby Patrizio Bertelli, and the group “were relaxing thinking back about the hippie clothing Miuccia used in the 1970s and just how much enjoyable it would be to use them now, when somebody recommended producing them internal. 2 months later on Miuccia had actually produced a total collection of fringed suede handbag, gauzy ruffled gowns, deerskin maxi skirts, and rawhide moccasins.”
This context appears especially pertinent due to the fact that the program opened with a laced bodice top that appeared to nod to a renowned Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche style of 1977. The Frenchman revealed it in the context of a boho reverie of complete, swirling skirts. Prada locked on to the Left Bank ambiance and took it in a creative, yet more practical instructions. Miu Miu’s bustier was coupled with sailor-style button-front cropped trousers in a summer-camp combination of khakis and blues.
Kid Scout belts and ponyskin waist pouches stressed underwear gowns appliquéd with child-like shapes of cherries, hearts, ducks, reindeer, and hands. There was likewise a cross stitch print of an ice cream cone. This deliciousness was followed by a group of candy-colored cotton looks, some with rick-rack trim, in maraschino red, blueberry, and licorice, together with a group of black appearances including metal “sprays.” For the ending there were satin ensembles in gem tones, some with a little bit of pouf at the sleeve or the skirt, others with half aprons. Signature Miu through-and-through, it satisfied the brand name’s objective, stated Styleof catching “the really eccentric side of Miuccia.”