MIU MIU, UPCYCLED, BY CATHERINE MARTIN

([...] Launched in 2020, Miu Miu Upcycled is a series of special collaborations of vintage pieces reworked and transformed by Miu Miu. The project began with a selection of vintage dresses. In 2021, Miu Miu unveiled the collaboration with Levi's® dedicated to vintage denim and, in 2022, launched a limited edition of leather jackets, specially created and shown on the runway for the Fall/Winter 2022 season. In January 2024, Miu Miu presented the fourth edition of the Upcycled project, with Denim and Patch bags, focused on pre-2000 dated jeans, carefully sourced from denim specialists all over the world and specifically selected. The handcrafted floral embroidery is also drawn from the past, inspired by research into 1950s haute couture. For the first time, the project included bags, with patch models crafted from leather left over from past Miu Miu designs. At the end of 2024, the Holiday collection introduced a fully realized wardrobe, featuring upcycled leather, kilts from the Fifties to the Seventies, upcycled yarns and samples of archival embroidery applied to a base of black chantilly lace. Miu Miu has partnered with the Aura Blockchain Consortium, through which each piece of the Collection can be verified.)

(Miu Miu collaborates with four-times Academy Award winning costume-, production- and set-designer Catherine Martin on a special collection for Miu Miu Upcycled, which also marks Martin’s directorial debut with a talent-rich short film entitled Grande Envie.[...]

Photography: Michella Bredahl Campaign Art Direction: Edward Quarmby Styling: Lotta Volkova Cast: Sam Davis, Sanique Dill, Betsy Gaghan, Eli Langer, Callina Liang, Yura Romaniuk, Daisy Ridley, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Diana Silvers, Eliot Sumner [...])