he surreal performance series returns, reimagining femininity through film, fashion, and art
Miu Miu continues to blur the boundaries between fashion, art, and cinema with the New York debut of Tales & Tellers, an interdisciplinary project first unveiled in Paris in 2024. Envisaged by Miuccia Prada, conceived by artist Goshka Macuga, and convened by MACBA director Elvira Dyangani Ose, the project is a sensory exploration of femininity through storytelling.
“Tales & Tellers” draws from the acclaimed Miu Miu Women’s Tales film series and the house’s runway art interventions from Spring/Summer 2022 through Spring/Summer 2025. It materializes through performance, installation, and video—transforming fashion’s fleeting moments into lasting reflections on identity and expression.
“Drawing its title from the notion of storytelling as a conveyance of knowledge, from the idea not only of the importance of narratives but of the figures who communicate them, Tales & Tellers comprises physical installation, video and performance,” the brand notes.
Each piece of the 36-performance program, co-directed by theatre and opera director Fabio Cherstich, pulls a character from one of the films or fashion shows, reimagined live by actors against projected backdrops of the original works.
The New York iteration, staged at Terminal Warehouse on May 10–11 (with a private preview on May 9), shifts the tone from Paris’s public square to a dreamlike urban streetscape. Here, the city becomes a surreal stage, where the boundaries of public space, identity, and memory are bent and redefined.
“In Paris, the performance… evoked a public square, examining interactions between both different characters and divergent interpretation of femininity. By contrast, in New York, an eerie nocturnal atmosphere has come to symbolize the streets of the city as a surreal place,” reads the project description.
The full program and public registration will be available on miumiu.com beginning May 2.
