Miu Miu

Miu Miu: Mosaic Mood, Marvelous Mode: But, even if Miu Miu was built on the past - using a series images culled from ancient Greek and Roman mosaics - it was far and away the most modern and innovative.

Like a genuine intellectual, designer Miuccia Prada thinks through the idea first before undertaking its elegant and extensive execution.

Take just one notion; the way Miuccia built columns into most looks, cutting her tops, low-waist skirts and sheaths with plisse vertical lines, mimicking fluted classical columns.

Even the models’ hair came with indented flutes, repeating the column motif. Beginning in mono-color, the designer gradually added the Pompey mosaics, heads of gods and devils or geometric patterns, all that tad ruined, before they all moved down to create a series of great new shoes in the same hues and prints – easily the best footwear seen anywhere this season.

The execution was so perfect – from the devore, holed and pitted fabrics to the craftily built in imperfections – that our favorite look didn’t even have any mosaics; just Russian model Natasha Poly in an ever so wrecked beige burlap cocktail with matching bags and pumps. Perfectly judged, decidedly new. (more…)