Taking a look at Miu Miu males’s collections, it is simple to see a resonance between what Mrs. Prada was doing within the mid-aughts and the way males wish to costume at the moment. She would possibly discover radically completely different themes from season to season—Tyrolean-core one yr, hunky hikers the following. However the line’s simple formality, and an emphasis on ugly-chic equipment that might have blown up on Instagram had it existed on the time, really feel deeply related to how males wish to costume at the moment. One of the crucial thrilling points of the Miu Miu menswear tease on the fall present was imagining what an actual Miu Miu-for-men assortment would appear like. Would Prada co-creative director Raf Simons, whose eponymous line interprets youth tradition throughout the many years, become involved? After all, males on the lookout for good, opulent interpretations of recent costume codes can now go to manufacturers like 4SDESIGNS—or, for that matter, Prada, the place concepts from previous Miu Miu males’s collections have not too long ago discovered new life. (Prada’s naive beach-boy vibe in spring 2022 strongly echoed that of Miu Miu males’s spring 2007 assortment.)

One Miu Miu fanatic, a London-based artist named Joseph Shao, sees a restrict to how standard the model can get in its present type. Miu Miu could also be widening the aperture of girlishness, however “it is nonetheless womenswear, and too female for many guys,” says Shao, who nonetheless thinks the autumn assortment would be the hottest amongst males but. The model may, in fact, resolve to strike whereas the iron is scorching by formally introducing a capsule assortment for males, or extending its sizing to accommodate a wider viewers. (A Miu Miu rep declined to verify any future plans.)

Greenberg, although, says he would nearly be dissatisfied if the Miu Miu really pivoted again to menswear. “I used to be making an attempt among the items on within the retailer, and I used to be similar to, oh, that is actually simply superbly tailor-made clothes,” he stated. “I do not suppose it’s worthwhile to label it as menswear. It may well simply be purposeful for everyone.” The wildest goals of the fashion-obsessed is perhaps altering, if Greenberg is any indication: “How cool wouldn’t it be have a completely non-binary Miu Miu?”