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Article: The Milan chronicles.(New collections shown in Milan, Italy, October, 1997)(includes related article on other events during the fashion shows)
- Article from:
- WWD
- Article date:
- October 6, 1997
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MIU MIU: All hail the teen-age home sewer! Miuccia Prada, fashion's greatest patroness of anti-chic, has added yet another unlikely suspect to her list of charming misfits now elevated to fashion icons -- bad girls, nerds, those die-hard scavengers of vintage haunts.
In the Miu Miu collection she showed on Friday, Prada turned her attention to a home ec zealot with a can-do attitude, a well-stocked crafts drawer and a Saint Laurent fixation. Along the way, she's dug up tear sheets of his peasants, cross-referenced them with all the Simplicity Pattern book has to offer, and voila! -- prom night perfection, in dazzling satin with off-the-shoulder, elasticized puffed ...