Pre-Fall Fashion Collection 2010 of Miu Miu at Paris Fashion Show

Pre-Fall fashion collection 2010 of Miu Miu at Paris fashion show:  If you didn’t already know that Miuccia Prada thinks of Miu Miu as an expression of her inner girl, you’d probably be able to guess it from the label’s pre-fall collection. With its narrow-shouldered plaid jackets, tiny little matching skirts, and girly knee-high knit socks, it had a sincere feel for the nymphet dolly birds who populated long-forgotten pop flicks like Joanna and The Touchables back when Prada was in her teens. It wasn’t only the abbreviated proportions of the tops and skirts—or their school uniform-y correctness—where the sixties made their presence felt. Pants were narrow-cut, flared, and cuffed—very Miss London. And the wool used is apparently, in Italy at least, irrevocably associated with that decade. But nothing is ever so literal in Pradaworld.

To anyone who couldn’t care less what girls wore Back Then, the re-proportioned duffel/parka hybrids were an adorable now-ish take on outerwear. Anyway, mixing time and place is a Prada specialty, and it was more forties glam than sixties pop that insinuated itself into the collection’s use of fur (as tippetlike collars or as the sleeves on a jacket) or into the leopard-printed sheepskin jacket.