PFW: A Labour Of Love At Miu Miu Spring/Summer 2026

Miu Miu Spring/Summer 2026 / All images courtesy of Miu Miu

At Miu Miu, Miuccia Prada continues to ask the questions others might overlook. For Spring/Summer 2026, she turned her gaze to work—its visibility, its value, and its beauty. Staged at the Palais d’Iéna, transformed into a surreal field of Formica tables, the show served as a meditation on women’s labour—both domestic and industrial, emotional and physical.

The apron was the collection’s central motif, put forward as both armour and adornment. Once a symbol of servitude and hard labour, it here became an emblem of agency, rendered in cotton poplin, raw canvas, or lace, tied over dresses, skirts, and even leather. In an era when billionaires are proliferating and hyper-individualism is becoming rampant, the show was a love letter to the everyday rhythms of work and why purpose beyond ourselves deserves recognition.

With this, the clothes ebbed between softness and structure. Industrial drill, silk cloqué, and embroidered canvas collided with ruffles and ribbons—a duality of toughness and tenderness that only Ms Prada can deliver. There were sculptural coats with exaggerated pockets, practical shift dresses belted with utility straps, and airy lace slips layered over crisp shirting. Workwear became playwear, and function and femininity merged effortlessly.

Miu Miu’s runway featured an all-star cast, too. Anatomy of a Fall star Sandra Hüller opened the show, while Richard E. Grant, Towa Bird, Milla Jovovich and Cortisa Star followed. With each season, Prada’s choices further cement the wit and substance that have always underpinned the brand’s design ethos.

Accessories continued the theme of utility with an elevated twist. Robust leather handbags, sensible and lived-in shoes, and aprons reimagined as art objects. Through Prada’s unflinching lens, the love and effort we pour into our days—whether it’s the quiet humdrum of work, performing chores or cooking for others—are celebrated.

This was work made visible, made beautiful. A collection that honoured labour not as drudgery or novelty, but as devotion. The result was a uniform for women who build, nurture, and imagine. At Miu Miu, to work is to care, and it seems to be a perspective we could all use a bit more of.