AMO drenched Auguste Perret’s ‘sober’ Palais d’Léna in bold pattern for Miu Miu AW20

It wasn’t just the models that were dressed in bold patterns for Miu Miu’s AW20 runway show in Paris – studio AMO covered its restrained setting Palais d’Iena with patterns and bright colour too.

The 1927 Auguste Perret-designed landmark was given a colourful make-over for the spectacle, which saw its architectural surfaces ‘hijacked’.

AMO’s first intervention was in the entranceway, where the original white floor was covered by a bright red carpet, detailed with an art deco fan motif that extended throughout the Palais and its Grand Staircase.

Each of the building’s columns was encased in a metal frame fitted with LEDs illuminated in pink light, and anchored by a velvet plinth. Mirrors extended patterned runway seemingly to infinity, ‘challeng[ing] the order and precision of modernism,’ said AMO.

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