Generally she’s the artist, generally she’s the canvas.
Miley Cyrus is making trend historical past as the primary face of Maison Margiela in 4 a long time — and he or she’s doing it in nothing however physique paint.
The “Flowers” singer stars within the French home’s Autumn/Winter 2025 Avant-Première marketing campaign, shot by famed Italian photographer Paolo Roversi.
In a number of of the painterly portraits, Cyrus seems nude save for white brushstrokes, accessorized solely with a purse and cleft-toe Tabi boots.
“The nudes by Paolo are so iconic and signature to his artwork. Standing bare for a trend marketing campaign felt main,” the 32-year-old mentioned in a launch. “All I wore was physique paint and the signature painted Tabi boots. In that second, Margiela and I grew to become one.”
The portraits reference the label’s iconic bianchetto approach, first launched by founder Martin Margiela in 1989.
With bianchetto, layers of white paint are utilized to furnishings, clothes, and now our bodies, decreasing every floor to a clean canvas and symbolically revealing the “hint of time.”
For longtime Cyrus followers, one picture might look acquainted. The over-the-shoulder pose echoes the notorious 2008 Self-importance Truthful photograph shoot by Annie Leibovitz, through which a then-15-year-old Cyrus posed draped in nothing however a satin sheet.
The photographs brought on a media firestorm on the time, forcing each the star and the journal to apologize — although later, the singer modified her tune.
“IM NOT SORRY,” the singer posted on Twitter in 2018 alongside a photograph of the New York Publish cowl from April 28, 2008. “F–okay YOU #10yearsago”
Leibovitz defended the portrait to Time in 2008, saying it was the general public that wanted to catch up: “The Miley image was a fantastic, sturdy, easy image. I believe it’s truly type of harmless on some stage. She liked taking that image, and he or she was able to take that image. It’s simply that her viewers wasn’t prepared.”
Almost 20 years later, Cyrus is once more stripped again—now on her personal phrases.
