MILAN, ITALY – JUNE 30: Fashions stroll down the runway at Miu Miu present as a part of Milan Menswear Week (Milano Collezioni Uomo) Spring/Summer season 2006 on June 30, 2005 in Milan, Italy. (Photograph by Giuseppe Cacace/Getty Photos)Giuseppe Cacace
Taking a look at Miu Miu males’s collections, it is easy to see a resonance between what Mrs. Prada was doing within the mid-aughts and the way males need to costume right this moment. She would possibly discover radically completely different themes from season to season—Tyrolean-core one 12 months, hunky hikers the subsequent. However the line’s straightforward formality, and an emphasis on ugly-chic equipment that will have blown up on Instagram had it existed on the time, really feel deeply related to how males need to costume right this moment. Some of the thrilling elements of the Miu Miu menswear tease on the fall present was imagining what an actual Miu Miu-for-men assortment would appear like. Would Prada co-creative director Raf Simons, whose eponymous line interprets youth tradition throughout the many years, get entangled? After all, males in search of good, opulent interpretations of contemporary costume codes can now go to manufacturers like 4SDESIGNS—or, for that matter, Prada, the place concepts from previous Miu Miu males’s collections have just lately discovered new life. (Prada’s naive beach-boy vibe in spring 2022 strongly echoed that of Miu Miu males’s spring 2007 assortment.)
One Miu Miu fanatic, a London-based artist named Joseph Shao, sees a restrict to how fashionable the model can get in its present type. Miu Miu could also be widening the aperture of girlishness, however “it is nonetheless womenswear, and too female for many guys,” says Shao, who however thinks the autumn assortment would be the hottest amongst males but. The model might, after all, determine to strike whereas the iron is sizzling by formally introducing a capsule assortment for males, or extending its sizing to accommodate a wider viewers. (A Miu Miu rep declined to verify any future plans.)
Greenberg, although, says he would virtually be upset if the Miu Miu really pivoted again to menswear. “I used to be making an attempt among the items on within the retailer, and I used to be similar to, oh, that is actually simply fantastically tailor-made clothes,” he mentioned. “I do not suppose you must label it as menswear. It could actually simply be practical for everyone.” The wildest desires of the fashion-obsessed may be altering, if Greenberg is any indication: “How cool wouldn’t it be have a very non-binary Miu Miu?”