“Ciao, I’m Miuccia, nice to meet you,” Miuccia Prada said to Marine Vacth as the French actress made her way through the crowd at the opening of Miu Miu’s new Herzog & De Meuron-designed flagship store in Tokyo’s Aoyama district. Prada and husband and Prada chief executive officer Patrizio Bertelli feted the store Thursday evening along with a roster of Miu Miu campaign girls past and present — namely Imogen Poots, Stacy Martin, Hailee Steinfeld, Mia Goth and Vacth — as well as Zhang Ziyi and Rinko Kikuchi. Comme des Garçons’ Rei Kawakubo and Adrian Joffe popped in on the early side — before most of the other guests arrived, Prada gave the couple a personal tour. And it seems that was only part of the designers’ interaction this week: A source said the two designers met at CDG’s headquarters for an hour and half on Wednesday. Later that evening, the entire crew made its way to an encore staging of Miu Miu’s Sixties-infused fall runway show at a multipurpose venue near Shibuy. Herzog & De Meuron designed the set, including a massive inflatable orange chair that was hanging above the runway and an impressive after-party setup featuring a bar structured
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