Editor’s Note: We continue our tradition of expanding the Vogue Runway archive by digitizing collections originally shot on film. Here’s a quartet of shows from Miu Miu, who had back-to-back hits in 2023 with the pantless look and neo-prep polo styles. This fall 1998 collection was originally presented in Milan in March 1998.
Miuccia Prada had the 1960s space age in sight for the fall of 1998, 40 years after the birth of NASA. Both her Prada and Miu Miu collections shared a palette of white, red and black and featured geometric silhouettes. Opening the Miu Miu show was a white funnel-neck top and miniskirt, adorned with white patent Mary Janes. Shapes – in the form of curved patch pockets on a leggy dress or four squares on a jacket (indicating where the interior Velcro closures were placed) – provided monochrome decoration. A few bubble hems and fringes added volume, but the main message was aerodynamics.
