Miu Miu

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[upbeat music] Larissa, Paris Fashion Week was on recently, but the models walking the runway for Italian fashion brand Miu Miu had people talking about their manicures as much as the clothes.

Yeah, this trend is giving me a bit of an eye twitch, Anna.

[laughs]

Um, so the models have their nails all painted bright red, but it's not neat.

The varnish kind of spills over onto the cuticle and the fingertip, and it reminds me a little bit of how my sister and I used to paint our nails when we were kids.

But Miu Miu's Japanese nail artist, Mei Kawajiri, reckons that the clean girl look has had its moment, and this new messy trend is more about beauty being real and imperfect, which I can get behind, but, you know, I don't know when it comes to nails.

Yeah, and this nail artist is a big deal.

So good.

The thing that, I've been thinking about this a lot recently because I already see changes at Versace in terms of how they, like, merchandise the website, and was thinking about the kind of why does Prada work so well? What is the difference between Prada and Miu Miu and, and so many other brands of that size and that recognition? And I've asked a million people recently.

I've asked executives from that group.

I've asked other s- designers.

So she wants to have creative freedom, and she wants to do what she wants, but she also wants it to be commercial and to make money." And I thought Tim Blanks' interview with her for Business of Fashion recently really got to the essence of that.

And, you know, it's just a, it's a once in, once in a lifetime kind of person to be able to Go to s- her shows and to see, and the fact that she has brought in another designer who I love and admire, and is able to work with him in that way, like it is remarkable, and it's so amazing that we get to witness it because there's just no one doing it better.

Like Miu Miu is not a brand that I ever buy myself, but those shows are always amazing also.

Like, she's just, everyone should be trying to emulate her in that she understands that it is art and commerce, and you can't escape either, and if you try to escape either, that's when you fail.

And I'm like, but I want to wear Alexander Wang.

And I want to wear Prada and Miu Miu.

And those brands are not built for curves.

Mm-hmm.