Paris Fashion Week: Miu Miu spring/summer 2011

Miuccia Prada closes Paris Fashion Week with Miu Miu's starry mix of flash dance and biker leathers.

A model walks the runway for the Miu Miu spring/summer 2011 collection at Paris Fashion Week Photo: AFP

The Italian designer, Miuccia Prada, closed the Paris prêt-â-porter season here tonight, with a starry mix of Flashdance-style dresses and metallic, glam-rocker leather in her younger, Miu Miu collection.

The silhouette was more gentle and looser than previous collections, with square-sleeved tops and broad-cut jackets, allied to modest, knee-covering skirts, often with a pleated detail.
Stars were the key motif of the show, lending a slightly sci fi-meets-rock vibe to the biker-style jackets, A-line skirts, and cut-outs. Necklines of waisted dresses, in black and white, primary shades and fluorescents, evolved into full-on bling-bling flashes of gleaming gold and silver.
Art Nouveau-look floral motifs climbed up from the hem of skirts, and flames or butterflies were set across the shoulders of boxy jackets and on the front of skirts. They were an alternative to the all-star vibe. Shoes, based on the 'cage' concept, employed a lattice ankle-cuff, with slender heels and minimum soles in pastels, fluorescents and metallics.
The models paraded to the dramatic strains of Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite.
It was fortunate many of the clothes were bright, and the stars embroidered and appliquéd on the dresses sparkled like the galaxy, as the boxed-in tent in which the show was staged was pitch black, with little air, no windows and, apparently, only one door by which to enter and exit.