Editor’s Word: We’re kickstarting the autumn 2024 menswear season by including two Miu Miu ready-to-wear collections—spring and fall 1999—to the Vogue Runway archive. These had been the primary two reveals that includes Miu Miu menswear, a line that was energetic for a decade (1998-2008), and round which a nostalgic cult has developed. It’s unattainable to relive the previous, however documenting it’s a totally different story…. Get pleasure from.

Miu Miu’s fall 1999 coed assortment, reported the New York Occasions’s Amy Spindler, was impressed by “a passage from a Tim Burton brief story about Stick Boy and Match Woman, whose gist is that every thinks the opposite is sizzling. ‘I believe younger guys are so charming,” Miuccia Prada advised the critic. “I like the way in which younger individuals are totally different and so candy with one another.” Apart from being a pleasant sentiment, it was additionally good enterprise; because the newspaper’s Lynn Hirschberg would report later that yr in a narrative titled “Determined to Appear 16”: “the teenage kids of the baby-boom technology occur to kind the biggest viewers of youngsters in historical past.” That meant quite a lot of consideration was being paid to those 2.0 Youthquakers, and to chasing youth, each on the field workplace (the author advised Romeo + Juliet kicked off the development for teen drama in leisure) and on the store flooring.

On this assortment Mrs. Prada appeared to have made the leap from match sticks to matching; the lads’s and ladies’s seems to be had been extra aligned than they’d been the earlier season. As soon as once more there was an emphasis on the outside, which was expressed by means of the palette, the mountain climbing boots, and using “pure” supplies like suede and shearling. On the similar time some sneakers had rubber soles and others holographic patterns. The advert marketing campaign discovered the fashions in a futuristic field by means of which a nighttime cityscape might be spied. They seemed to be suspended in house as they sat and lounged on home windows, trying by means of panes of glass on the world—come to consider it, that’s just about how we use our telephones 25 years later.