Kate Moss, Naomi Harris, the Preservation Hall Brass Band from New Orleans and the models Adwoa and Kesewa Aboah, Missy Rayder, Jean Campbell, Eliza Cumming and Jasmine Daniels all star in the Miu Miu Fall/Winter 2017 advertising campaign.
In the timeless and avant-garde atmosphere of New Orleans, Alasdair McLellan’s photographic language draws inspiration from the ‘patois’ of the deep south of Louisiana and the endless jazz melodies with which the days are intertwined, offering us a collage of situations set along the marshes of the Mississippi, the port of New Orleans and the legendary Preservation Hall, the historic home of jazz from all over the world; images that transmit the tension and wild energy of this land, where time flows as slowly as the river that runs through it…
Brightly-coloured faux furs and translucent plastics sheath feathered drop-waist dresses, and jewelled hardware and piles of paillettes meet soft garments with wide necks, superimposing contemporary forms and materials onto a metaphorical soundtrack of old-timey sensibilities.
Preservation Hall and other stories
