Identifying Colour Ratio to the Collection

We have split the collection into two parts that have two very different colour palettes. The first part consists of much more vibrant hues with bright primary colours mixed with maroons, black and teal. These colours all have a dramatic intensity with a high saturation making them quite unnatural and not life like colours. The darker colours that are paired with the bright primary colours have a very low value with shades of black added to them to create a dull hue. Several of the outfits are given added intensity as the bight colours are often strongly contrasted with black in the collection. The second colour palette is more subtle with creams, moss, baby pink and mauve and all have quite a low intensity. These colours have a more subdued effect on the whole collection and this creates a complete contrast with a delicate feeling of sheer fabrics, soft prints and fine details.
The collection is brought together by the silhouettes and the constant length of the dresses, high-waisted skirts and bloomers which are all extremely short. There are only 3 pairs of trousers in the collection and they are all straight legged. Miniskirts teamed with sheer bibbed blouses and a beautiful voluminous cape, before volume creeps into the bottom half of the silhouette with springy tutus that flare out from the waist to hip with a flash of the bloomers and miniskirts underneath. The key detail punctuating the collection are the collars, chaps and cuffs that are often detached from the clothing, and are a modern take on the short lace gloves favoured by Madonna in the Eighties. This is a typically style of Miu Miu to add such a quirky detail to grown-up blouses and shift dresses. This also reflects the main theme of the collection with a theatrical circus like inspiration as a fantasy wonderland is created with extremely short harlequin style dresses that are illustrated with a female face.
The spilt colour palette reflects the principal of novelty that states even though people like a harmonious colour scheme that is balanced the harmony quickly becomes boring. Therefore an unforeseen colour combination can make the collection more desirable and harmonious. The theory of novelty also fits in with the brand identity and philosophy of Miu Miu that every colour is not what you would expect, and shows the playful side of the label. The entire collection fits Miu Miu's vision which is to bring theatre to life and to dress for a performance; these pieces are about dressing up and showing your creative side.
Furthermore the collection is broken down into a monochromatic scheme with an outfit with shades of green, an achromatic scheme with black and white outfits and outfits with the colours form the same colour palette.




Purely white outfits were contrasted with bright shoes.

A bright red with high intensity paired with black for greater contrast and effect.






These three outfits used the same colours paired with black.
The unexpected high intensity colours and the style of the harlequin dresses with faces on them also reflect the Surrealism style from the 1920s, particularly from Salvador Dali’s work. Salvador Dali was a Spanish painter and was best known for his great imagination with striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. He also paints faces and objects that have been distorted that are similar to the feeling of Miu Miu’s faces on the dresses, and his objects were inspired by blocks of melting cheese.



As well as playful and beautifully created garments, the accessories also stood out and almost stole the show with clutch purses so small they were almost invisible in the models’ hands. The outfits were also accompanied by Art Nouveau inspired shoes with platform shoes growing into boots as the collection proceeded. Art Nouveau is characterized by organic, especially floral and other plant-inspired motifs, as well as highly-stylized, flowing curvilinear forms, and these forms on the shoes were often infused with a mixed colour palette like the outfits themselves.



Art Nouveau inspired shoes with the same colour palette seen in the outfits.

Art Nouveau inspired boots that were paired with extra short miniskirts and bloomers to create an incredibly quirky touch to an already eccentric coloured outfit.