Just recently, Miu Miu held a show focusing on women in Shanghai, which has become the most concerned thing in the fashion circle recently.
It is a special screening and dinner hosted by Miu Miu to celebrate the release of the latest work in the "Women's Tales" short film series. Miu Miu tries to explore the spiritual perspective exclusively for women through short and powerful fashion short films.
Miu Miu gathered friends of the brand in the historic Shanghai Da Guangming Cinema to witness this extraordinary and exciting release.
Important guests from the fields of film, fashion and culture attended, including fashionable actresses Yao Chen, Wen Qi, Yang Chaoyue, Zeng Meihuizi, Qiu Tian; supermodels Ju Xiaowen, Tang He, Xiang Yanjing; director Cheng Liang , Mei Lili; Producer Sun Yali, Gao Yitian, etc.
Yao Chen
Wen Qi
Yang Chaoyue
Zeng Meihuizi
Qiu Tian
Ju Xiaowen
The theater's dress is retro and rich, and echoes the aesthetics in Miu Miu's genes.
Miu Miu also prepared popcorn for everyone watching the movie. The light pink box is girly and cute.
The two films that the guests watched in the cinema were the 19th and 20th parts of the "Woman's Story" series. They were the short film "Night Walk" directed by Małgorzata Szumowska and the short film "In My Room" directed by Mati Diop. .
Every woman wearing Miu Miu has her unique story. Maybe you are a lush young girl with a young age, or a woman with an elegant temperament, Miu Miu can bring out their shining points one by one.
Actor Yao Chen wore the Miu Miu 2021 early spring series, a black single-breasted suit with a black leather skirt and black boots, and a cartoon cat blue shirt inside, which is cool and feminine.
"This black Miu Belle handbag is also called the'Beauty Bag'. My favorite is the'Beauty Bag' I took today." Yao Chen said with a smile.
Yao Chen told us that she loves Miu Miu's accessories the most, because they are very exaggerated, but retro and good-looking, which can satisfy her inner little princess. Miu Miu is a very humanistic brand with its own historical heritage.
Miu Miu not only thinks about products, but also deeply remembers her in terms of humanistic care. In the short film "In My Room", she mentioned this scene in the film-a woman in a Miu Miu dress sings an opera very exaggeratedly, and then quickly received a singing response from a man in the opposite window.
"I feel that although people are trapped at home by the epidemic, they have never given up their yearning for life, for beauty, and for the pursuit of beauty. At the same time, it also makes me feel that "In My Room" is a very tasteful, very tasteful. Unique, life-related and women-related films."
Wen Qi and Yao Chen both chose black suits tacitly. But the difference is that Wen Qi chose a short waist-length suit, matched with a white inner style, simple and classic in black and white.
We talked to her about the story of her and Miu Miu. Regarding the first Miu Miu item, she still remembered it clearly. It was a red sweater with a completely different style.
The diverse Miu Miu has always been very suitable for Wen Qi.
When asked about her impression of watching movies today, Wen Qi said that "Night Walk" gave her a great shock. The characters in the short film from the struggle at the beginning, to the true self in the later stage, and finally to reconciliation with family and society, made her realize that everyone needs to face and accept the true self.
Yang Chaoyue's Miu Miu dress is very different. She chose a blue frilled dress. The style of this princess dress is a classic style that she has loved since childhood. It is very cute and fits her temperament very well.
"The Miu Miu items that I first liked were ballet shoes and perfume."
Yang Chaoyue likes Miu Miu's free and youthful qualities, which she thinks is very similar to her attitude towards life.
Although the two short films produced by Miu Miu are completely different themes, she tells us that she feels that Miu Miu’s freedom characteristics are hidden, that is, people have a great deal of freedom in an isolated environment, whether in spirit or reality. There is an eternal yearning and pursuit. And through the different perspectives of female directors, there is a different kind of charm, and it also allows the human body to experience the strength of women's toughness.
Zeng Meihuizi likes this look very much. She thinks that the Miu Miu 2021 early spring series leopard coat with a blue princess skirt and silver crystal shoes combines the sense of primitiveness with the sense of fairy tales. It is a time when women and girls meet.
"The first Miu Miu item I owned was when I was a girl and bought a Miu Miu red sunglasses with the'first pot of gold'."
"Miu Miu combines the innocence of the girl with the feminine beauty, forming a natural, confident creed of life and love for oneself."
She told us that "Night Walk" showed her that two people with different life trajectories meet in the same inner universe, which is about freedom and self.
"In My Room" reminded her of her grandma. She has lived in the same place for decades. She also had her own wishes when she was young. She was also a girl, but time will not stop. Change is the only thing Things.
Regardless of their age, women must bravely love themselves and their lives. Now, wearing Miu Miu and singing "La Traviata" is one of her biggest wishes.
Qiu Tian also comes from the Miu Miu 2021 early spring series. The big skirt and sequined white socks look like a ballet girl who has just entered the dance floor.
She likes Miu Miu's bravery, independence, elegance and rebellion, and she dreams of becoming such a woman. In the short film "In My Room", she understood a deeper meaning of independence.
"Women's'independence' should not only be on the surface and material level, but more importantly, face loneliness alone."
Ju Xiaowen wearing Miu Miu is still cute.
With the warm autumn colors of turmeric for the occasion, with plaid fabrics and a little retro twist braid shape, Ju Xiaowen is exquisite like a porcelain doll.
Speaking of Miu Miu, she feels that Miu Miu never floats with the wind, insists on himself, is bold and full of endless fun, just like another her.
She is very grateful for this movie invitation. From the short film "In My Room", she feels that one woman misses another woman, and the three-dimensional multi-faceted narrative is more narrative.
"I feel like I have fallen into the film, and I can feel the temperature of the wind and sunlight inside, as well as the delicate and complex emotions."
"Woman's Story" is Miu Miu's highly acclaimed short film series. Many influential and original female directors have participated in it, and they have also been favored by so many actresses. Then, Miu Miu's "Woman's Story" series of short films What kind of story is told?
Next, we will elaborate on the two short films at the screening. They are the 19th "Night Walk" filmed by Małgorzata Szumowska and the 20th "In My Room" directed by Mati Diop.
"Night Walk"
"In My Room"
The two films are completely different in terms of shooting techniques, expressions and plots, but they are equally thought-provoking.
In the form of a silent film, "Night Walk" shows two young people caught in the dilemma of self-cognition, liberating from the established male and female roles and family shackles, and discovering their truest self.
At the beginning of the film, the camera focuses on the homes of two young people-boys are dull and do not communicate too much with their parents; girls are deadlocked at home with their mothers. Contradiction broke out in silence and quarrel. The two young people ran away from home together, thinking and chasing the true self in the cold wind of Warsaw, the Polish capital.
Finally they met on the street.
The encounter seemed to make them understand something. The boy wore women's clothing, the girl hid her long hair and put on sportswear. The two went home separately, and finally reconciled with their families.
In this short 8 minutes, the director explained this complicated story completely without any narration or dialogue, which is amazing.
The starring Raffey Cassidy is a typical Miu Miu girl who has been shooting commercials for Miu Miu since she was 16.
When interpreting the characters in the film, she said: "Accept your body, accept your innermost self, don't be stuck with gender, keep the most comfortable state, and become what you want most."
All of this is achieved through Miu Miu in the short film. This is what Miu Miu is trying to achieve-
Fashion will make society tolerant.
With the support of Miu Miu, this brave short film inspires many people who are hesitating in their hearts to express themselves in the way they want to be seen.
"In My Room" is 20 minutes long. The director Mati Diop compiled and cut the audio of his grandmother Maji's life, and combined with the fragmentary images of the isolated life to convey the spiritual world of the two generations of grandparents.
The short film has been repeatedly switching the director's isolation life segments. The foggy cloudy building, the gorgeous golden sunset, the shiny glass windows, the curtains swayed out by the wind...
All of this, Maji, the director's grandmother, had been alone for 20 years.
Maji looked out the window day after day. Sunrise, sunset, reflective buildings, normal days.
Taking advantage of the epidemic isolation, the director recalled the 20 years of his grandmother's life. From the recordings left by my grandmother, I explored the loneliness of my grandmother Maji word by word.
The distance between the apartment building and the building was very close. She looked up and looked out the window. Through the small framed window, she still seemed to see the scene that her grandmother had seen.
Everyone lives in a snail, some people live ordinary, some people live for their dreams.
She remembered her grandmother's unfulfilled dream: singing the opera "La Traviata" once.
In the film, the living room of the grandmother's apartment becomes a stage. When Mati Diop put on Miu Miu's exquisite and gorgeous costumes and sang "La Traviata", she seemed to realize her dream for her grandmother.
The first time I watched the whole film, it was a bit trivial, even unpredictable, too many fragments combined. When you watch the matching recordings repeatedly, you will find that this is the director's mourning for his grandmother, the soul and spirit collision between grandparents and grandchildren.
We are temporarily deprived of liberty because of the epidemic, but you don’t need to worry, because such an experience gives us more time to look at ourselves, miss the people and things we should miss, and observe the world.
Miu Miu has been exploring and guiding the spiritual world of women.
Miu Miu and its "Woman's Story" series are a clear stream of fashion short films, not pretending to be noisy, nor too esoteric. When you watch it repeatedly, you will capture the deep meaning of the short film.
The "Women's Story" short film series began in January 2011. All small films were directed by the most unique and outstanding female filmmakers at the moment, invited by Miu Miu to continuously output female perspectives.
Many experts in the field of fashion culture praised these short films for discovering the beauty and wonders of the world under the imagination of women. It prompts its viewers to change from the perspective of a third party to see themselves inwardly and realize their core.
It not only introduces the female characteristics of the 21st century from the perspective of truth, goodness and beauty, but also interprets and reveals the complex life and contradictory stories behind today's women from a critical perspective.
The first "Woman's Story" series is "The Powder Room" directed by Zoe Cassavetes. It tells that the dressing room is unique to women. There is no male interruption here, and you can even observe other same-sex people calmly, then reorganize your makeup and emotions, and face the outside world brightly and bravely.
The Miu Miu in the film nearly 10 years ago is still a classic of beauty.
Looking back at the previous clips, the ninth "Dress" is amazing, with skirts as the protagonist.
In the film, a nun instructs her subordinates to salvage many skirts on the beach. She takes them back to dry and distributes them to everyone, but the remaining one is not sent out.
The distributed skirts were put on by the pretty-aged girls, and dozens of reporters ran after the girls.
The remaining skirt is alive, can open the dust bag by himself, can choose who wears it, and can refuse to be photographed.
Through this story like a fairy tale, the director cleverly hinted that the essence of wearing clothes is not for flashlights, for showing off, but more for being appropriate.
In 2019, the 18th short film "Brigitte", named after French photographer Brigitte Lacombe, records her shooting process.
Through these short films, we are enough to realize that there is a big shortcoming in exploring the spiritual world of women. The serious thing is that the spirit is also the most difficult to figure out, the most difficult to understand, extremely abstract matter.
Miu Miu spent 10 years and 20 short fashion films to support the career of female directors.
It encourages them to pass on their stories and express their opinions. It encourages all women to bravely stand side by side and explore the deeper spiritual world that is exclusive to women.
In fact, female directors are still not mainstream. In the ranking of the top 250 US directors announced in 2018, only 8% of female directors are on the list.
But Miu Miu tried to prove to us that people can express many important things through fashion, support women, give different groups of people a bigger stage, and make the whole society more tolerant...
We also expect that with the support of Miu Miu, the group of female directors will grow larger, and the spiritual perspective belonging to women will become fuller.
"A Woman's Story", to be continued forever...
