Introducing the latest in a series of films commissioned by Mrs. Miuccia Prada for MIU MIU, starring the Italian actress Maya Sansa. It is set to a haunting soundtrack, written especially for the film by the electronic pop trio Au Revoir Simone.
Following The Powder Room — Zoe Cassavetes’ dreamy story of opulence and glamour, and MUTA — Lucrecia Martel’s film noir filled with mutant fashion divas — The Woman Dress is again set in an all-female world of glamour and desire. But this time fashion obsession is taken to its most extreme conclusion, in a metaphysical tale of transcendence and ritual.
A coven of elegant witches attends a bubbling cauldron, their shadowy cavern hung with the ghosts of dresses. Maya Sansa is undressed and led to a bath, and her finger pricked to draw blood. The witches — played by Heather D’Angelo, Erika Forster and Annie Hart of Au Revoir Simone — circle, chanting in strange tongues. As the smoke clears we see Maya Sansa has made the ultimate sacrifice, transforming herself into the object of her desire — a beautiful blood red dress.
The film, featuring key dresses from MIU MIU, draws on a surreal cinematic language, with its red velvet curtain, reverse-speak and dreamlike mise-en-scène.
“MUTA”, Miu MiuDiscover the short film ‘MUTA’ by the director Lucretia Martel, celebrating the Autumn Winter 2011-12 collection by Miuccia Prada for MIU MIU.
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We’ve chosen some of our favourite details from the Spring Summer collections at YVES SAINT LAURENT, PRADA & MIU MIU – with punchy appliqué, colour-blocking & sharp angles for a graphic, ladylike compliment to Tabitha’s designs. (more…)
The Powder Room, Miu MiuThe Spring Summer 2011 collection by MIU MIU is immortalised by filmmaker Zoe Cassavetes’ in this short film for the brand featuring Audrey Marnay, Line Gost, Caroline de Maigret and Sophie Vlaming.