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Miu Me London Boscamp Talley Hodges Pike LeLe Keller Kimmelman Mason McCleskey Javier Burkle I like to conjure up a persona for a girl named Miu Miu. If she were an actual person, she wouldn't be an only child — more like the only child from her dad's first marriage, but she now has two younger half-brothers from her dad's second marriage. She likes fashion quite a bit, but not like Cher from Clueless. Miu Miu likes to rummage around her grandmother's closet and nearby thrift stores. At a keg party, she'll show up wearing a pair of boxer shorts under her miniskirt (a Miu Miu staple from recent collections), just in case she needs to do a keg stand. She's happy to be part of an ensemble, à la a Whit Stillman film. In fact, she's much like Parker Posey's character Miami in Kicking & Screaming. (If you haven't seen it and don't get my reference — shame on you and watch this weekend.) On a recent night in Dallas, many distant cousins of this straw-girl I created came for a viewing of Miu Miu's Spring/Summer 2026 collection at the Highland Park Village boutique, which opened quietly late last year. Spanning 3,800 square feet, the store's sculpted white façade and expansive glass panels reveal an interior of quiet material harmony. Signature Miu Miu blue flows seamlessly across walls, furnishings, and ceilings, while soft contours and brass-framed oak woodwork feel intimate. The full Miu Miu universe of ready-to-wear, handbags, shoes, jewelry, and accessories embodies the brand's craftsmanship, playfulness, and grace. Guests gathered in the dusky blue jewel-box store for cocktails amid Miuccia Prada's latest collection, which focuses on the significance and relevance of work — specifically, the work of women. Its invisibility is confronted and addressed, recognized and valorized. Miuccia took the opposite tack of Marie Antoinette and created utilitarian aprons of female factory workers in canvas and leather, mixed with frilly versions more reminiscent of mothers, grandmothers, and the domestic worker. By Billy Fong. Photography Kaitlin Saragusa. There was something slightly cinematic about the scene: the gentle clink of glasses, the low murmur of conversation, the occasional moment of delight as someone discovered a favorite coat, shoe, or bag tucked just so within the space. In attendance for cocktails were Heather Hill Washburne, Krystal Schlegel Davis and Luke Davis, LeLe Keller Kimmelman, Kennedy Boscamp, and Talley Hodges Pike, among others. After the store was pillaged (literally, so much was purchased that night), a select group made their way to dinner at Fachini. It was one of those very rare nights where the weather was perfect for an al fresco evening on the front-facing balcony. Spotted at dinner were Brian Bolke, Kaleta Blaffer- Johnson, Karla Noone, Lynsey Eaton, Reed Robertson, Rochelle Gores, and Kasey Lemkin. I've become smitten with the local Miu Miu team and their crew from NYC that flew in for the opening. All were incredibly down-to-earth but also built to cocktail with the finest of the social set. It was the sort of evening one would expect from my imaginary Miu Miu — elegant without feeling fussy, intimate and unmistakably special, and a lovely reminder that sometimes the most memorable nights begin with a cocktail in a beautiful boutique and end around a table with old friends. Alas, there were no keg stands, but perhaps next time. Patricia Quirino Karla Noone Billy Fong Kaleta Blaffer Johnson Jamie Coulter Lindsey McClain Heather Hill Washburne Miu Miu Dallas Miu Miu Spring/Summer 2026 32