LONDON, United Kingdom — BoF compiles the most important professional moves of the week. Miu Miu hires general manager Miu Miu has named Benedetta Petruzzo as the brand’s new general manager, effective February 3. Petruzzo joins the company from Kering Eyewear USA, where she was executive vice president, and reports to Prada Co-Chief Executive Patrizio […]
Sharna Osborne’s Images Look Like Nothing Else in Fashion
LONDON, United Kingdom — The videos and stills made by the New Zealand-born artist Sharna Osborne don’t look like anything else in the fashion world — or at least not like anything else being produced today, this decade, or this millennium. What reads at first as nostalgia in her work — nostalgia for 1980s and […]
Unobvious Beauty at Miu Miu
PARIS, France — If Miuccia Prada was on the simmer a fortnight ago in Milan, a cooler head had prevailed by the time she showed Miu Miu on Tuesday in Paris. She still railed against the retrogressive tendencies in popular culture and all the lip service paid to the future and “inventing revolution”, but she […]
A Ghost Hovers Over Miu Miu's Rebel Spirit
PARIS, France — One of the best shows in New York at the moment is the Morgan Library’s retrospective of Peter Hujar’s photographs. It coincides with a groundswell of interest in the downtown art scene of the 80s. Hujar’s pictures capture the personalities of the time, among them, the late Cookie Mueller, queen of the Lower […]