*The above are a few of my favorite looks from the collection*

Miu Miu has decided to add to their fancy footwear collection by releasing a sparkly sneaker line! Five Chuck Taylor-style low top sneakers will debut for fall in materials like patent leather, lame and velvet embellished with sequins, metallic studs and crystals.

The sneaks will be available in stores and online later this month for $450 to $585. Let the DIY Converse projects begin.

[Source: WWD; The New York Times]

Hailee Steinfeld, who has worn designer frocks on the red carpet with more aplomb than actresses twice her age, is now the new face of Miu Miu. Prada reps and Steinfeld’s stylist Karla Welch both confirmed this to various media sources on Monday. Welch told the Daily Beast, “Miu Miu is such a perfect fit for her. Throughout awards season, they were the dresses she wanted to wear.” The Fall/Winter 2011 campaign has already been shot, but no details are available about it.

The 14-year-old pretty quickly won the respect of the fashion industry with her sophisticated yet entirely age appropriate red carpet choices. She’s worn Miu Miu several times in public and sparked rumors of a collaboration when she appeared at the Miu Miu runway show in Paris this past March.

Steinfeld is the youngest ever face of the brand, and she joins Katie Holmes, Evan Rachel Wood, Vanessa Paradis and Lindsay Lohan in the ranks of former Miu Miu muses. Let’s hope Steinfeld fares better than LiLo. She’s certainly already a better dresser. (We’ll let this sorta cute but sorta cringeworthy K-Mart commercial she did in 2009 slide.)

Kudos to Hailee for her new endeavor. We can’t wait to see what she wears next awards season.

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Miu Miu RTW Fall 2011

For fall, Miuccia Prada staged her Miu Miu runway at Paris’ Palais d’léna, home to France’s Economic and Social Council. There was a reason: all the better to flaunt her recent partnership with the CESE by using its headquarters as a cultural and artistic center. It was also an inauguration as the collection proved to be a pleasant and pretty outing, one that also made for an engaging riposte to her main show in Milan. Instead of aiming for girlish innocence as she did there, chez Miu Miu, Prada set her sights on a more grown-up tack.

 But the role reversal wasn’t just about doling out womanly clothes that strike a vintage chord. Rather, Prada seemed to be making a play for adult dressing seen through the eyes of a wide-eyed kid. It explains the oversize shapes throughout, which projected a youthful vibe onto elegant-yet-prim dresses and conservative tailoring. Also furthering that agenda: the jumbo bow motif on pencil skirts and the tidy contrast-color collars that looked almost sketched on to the spare, sculpted coats and dresses. Everything came cast in a Forties filter, too, à la Mildred Pierce but gentler. There were broad, pronounced shoulders; to-the-era prints and embroideries, done in swallow and lily of the valley patterns, and fantastic frame bags, the latter in plumped-up proportions. Even the furs, beastly and tinted elsewhere on the runways, were cut from movie-glamour minks — albeit served with nontraditional accents on the shoulders and hips.

 The boyish blouson tops, meanwhile, styled with off-kilter baseball caps, added a nice counterpoint to the otherwise polite and ladyfied clothes. That said, things at Prada aren’t always exactly as they seem. Perhaps that’s the reason for the soundtrack of choice: Kate Bush’s “The Infant Kiss,” with its uncomfortable undertones of woman-boy lust.

*The above are a few of my favorite looks from the collection*

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