Playful independence is the order of the day in this newly released video for Miu Miu’s new fragrance which stars Wonderland cover-star Stacy Martin. “Miu Miu”, the brand’s debut fragrance, is as complex and individual as the company itself, combining classically feminine notes of rose and jasmine with unexpected undertones of pepper and wood. Its an eclectic and individual fragrance composed by long time Prada perfume collaborator Daniela Andrier for the fearless Miuccia Prada and, as expected, its accompanying video is a thought provoking and enjoyable watch.

Stacy Martin, best known for her role in Lars von Trier’s controversial Nymphomaniac, seems like a fitting choice for the campaign’s celebration of independent womanhood given her courageous choices of roles as an actor – anyone familiar with Nymphomaniac will know it’s an unflinchingly graphic movie. Here, the French-English actress, and Wonderland cover star, is on typically beguiling form as she playfully toys with a kitten looking both enchanting and enigmatic.

Miuccia’s inspired choice for the video’s soundtrack is Lesley Gore’s defiant 1963 classic “You Don’t Own Me”, an influential track in the second-wave feminism movement and, then, a fitting musical embodiment of Miuccia’s reputation for conceptual bravery in her designs. “Don’t tell me what to do. Don’t tell me what to say”, sings Gore, telling us all we need to know about what contemporary femininity means to the Miu Miu girl.

The fragrance release comes at an appropriate time for Miuccia, who has just overseen a new season of the  Miu Miu Women’s Tales series at the Venice International Film Festival. The series showcased short films from a variety of female auteurs  interested in critically celebrating femininity in the 21st century, including veteran New Wave director Agnès Varda. All the clothes in the films are provided, of course, courtesy of Miu Miu, so expect both style and substance from the acclaimed series: just  like the fragrance itself.

The fragrance is available to buy now in 30, 50 and 100ml Eau de Parfum

Words: Benji Walters

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Yes, Miuccia Prada’s declaration of independence can finally be worn! Now that the fragrance has hit the stores Miu Miu has blessed us with a short clip for the campaign. Fresh and floral, unique but also sophisticated, the campaign’s decision to feature French-English actress Stacy Martin as their front-girl does not come as a surprise to Wonderland, our covergirl for Sept/Oct 2014.

Miuccia’s love for the complicated, elusive, and multifaceted woman comes through with the perfume’s youthful and feminine tones, so representative of the Italian brand’s history. The owner’s love for Stacy probably stems from her reputation to be risky and unconventional when acting – she is the embodiment of fearlessness and thus a personification of Miuccia.

What makes this #MiuMiuParfum so much more special is the dinner Miuccia is hosting tomorrow night to celebrate the Miu Miu Women’s Tales, held at Ca’ Corner della Regina. The meal will feed many talents within the cinema and art industries, including the one and only Stacy, and others such as Hailee Steinfield, Whitney Cummings, Dakota Johnson, and so many more.

The latest short films in the Women’s Tales – “De Djess” and “Les 3 Boutons” premiere tomorrow at the Venice Film Festival so surely all attendees will be wearing Miu Miu by Miu Miu, available nationwide this week.

The fragrance is available to buy now in 30, 50, and 100ml Eau de Parfum.

Words: Marianna Mukhametzyanova

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Fashion Editor: Danielle Emerson.

Photographer: Clare Shilland.

Hair:  Selena Middleton at SOHO Management using Kiehl’s Stylist Series.

Make Up: Thom Walker using Chanel Le Lift Serum & AW14.

Photography assistance:  Liam Hart.

Hair Assistance: Chloe Campbell.

Make up assistance:  Lois Moorcroft.

Fashion assistance: Georgina Thomas.

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Boundary-crushing silver screen sensation Stacy Martin on life as Miuccia’s new muse. We take a look behind the scenes on her shoot.

The first time Stacy Martin watched her debut feature-length performance in Lars Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac – 2013’s graphic insight into self-hatred, torture and sensation – it was with her parents. “I made them watch it with me,” she says, in a daisy-speckled garden in Peckham. “The only way to break through that level of awkwardness is to actually approach it.” The two-part epic sees Martin, armed with a prosthetic vagina, appear to fellate a middle-aged man on a packed train and then proceed to grope, tongue and molest her way through its remaining carriages.

In person, Martin is nothing like Trier’s mania-inflicted protagonist, portrayed in the film’s second instalment by Von Trier-regular Charlotte Gainsbourg. A mixture of amazing grace and a beckoning, freckled face landed her a modelling contract with Premier, a recent Gaspar Noe-shot editorial for VMan and a boyfriend in Daniel Blumberg, Yuck’s equally lithe guitar hero.

This winter sees her team up with photographer Steven Meisel as the face of Miu Miu’s AW14 campaign. In her biggest fashion project to date, Martin doubles as a sixties screen icon: all sharply symmetrical fringes, folded arms, shadows creeping across a focussed, lensward stare. The project marries two of Martin’s great loves: vintage glamour (Martin wore Prada at Nymphomaniac’s premier) and classic cinema; Godard, Fellini and all.

It was Des Hamilton – Nymph’s casting director,  known previously for scouting the chicly gaunt This Is England ensemble – who plucked her from obscurity, stunned by her resemblence to 70s film enigma Jane Birkin, Gainsbourg’s mother. Before they met, she was flitting between Tokyo, where her cosmetics consultant father worked, and Paris, where she was born. Now, Martin is primed for roles in High Rise (a thriller based on JG Ballard’s Trellick Tower inspired day-mare) and The Tale of Tales where she stars alongside Vincent Cassel.

So how has this Hackney humbleton become film’s new good taste barometer? For someone so breezy and affable – while writing this piece, I bump into her in a fish and chips shop, and we swap a few friendly glances – she’s loath to give too much away. It’s an inspiring rather than infuriating look for Martin and plus, who needs silly old words when you have the eyes of a Lloyd Alexander princess, Bardot skin and a project roster to rival precisely no one? The silence is deafening.

Wonderland: You were cast in the new Miu Miu campaign. Was Steven Meisel a dream to work with?

Stacy Martin: I had an amazing time shooting with him, because he’s so gentle. The pictures are like something out of a Godard film. Rather than a straight-up fashion shoot, it became something different, I really enjoyed that side of it. When you have a team like Miu Miu… they’re so lovely and caring. We just ended up talking about film the whole day.

W: What films were you talking about?

S: A lot of Italian films.

W: La Dolce Vita, et al?

S: Yeah. At the time I’d just been cast in an Italian film [The Tale of Tales], so it was perfect.  But they’ve always supported creativity. For the last campaign, they cast Lupita [Nyong’o], Elizabeth Olson… actresses not yet at the peak of their careers. They just really believe in that.

W: You grew up in Tokyo. Was this an intense and vexing experience for a seven-year-old born in Europe?

S: Well, when you’re young you’re more able to adapt to a culture. Plus, I went to a French school and everyone around me spoke French, so it never felt like something we shouldn’t be doing. I picked up Japanese quite well, too.

W: Is this how you feel about new challenges? That you’re great at being a fish out of water?

S: I guess challenges don’t scare me very much. I’m used to being in new situations or being somewhere where you don’t understand a word and get away with what you can. It       becomes fun!

W: Which actors did you look up to? If you’re getting into acting from a young age, I guess it’s a case of, “I could do that!”

S: I never thought I’d become an actress. I went to university [London College of Communication] and I never really believed I could I do acting as a job. But I went to acting class because I loved it in quite a casual way. I never really looked for it and in a weird way it fell into my hands. Half the time I’m like, “What’s going on? I’ve got an agent. Why me?”

W: Have you ever had a day job?

S: I moved to London when I was 18 and I’d been to a few modelling agencies before that. I was very lucky because at 18 I was completely independent from my parents financially. I didn’t have to work in a pub, and I could fund all my acting classes [because of the modelling jobs]. It’s something I did alongside my studies, because it’s not an everyday job. It gave me a lot of freedom when I moved.

W: Tell me about meeting Des Hamilton for the first time.

S: It was really weird, because at the time I was training and I really wanted to have a shift in my life. I knew I didn’t want to model. One day, my modelling agency said, “Look, we have a casting for this campaign, you can do more acting training.” I told them I’d go, but secretly never did. The only one I turned up to was cast by Des. He’s this incredible Scottish guy – this freak staring at me all afternoon. Then he said, “I’m casting this film called Nymphomaniac for Lars Von Trier.” It turned out he wasn’t a freak at all, and he became my fairy godmother  – without    the dress.

W: He explained the concept to you there and then, right?

S: I don’t think there’s anyway around it, you just have to say it like it is. “So it’s called Nymphomaniac, quite self-explanatory really, and you’ll have a porn double…”

W: I just watched it.

S: Oh, how are you feeling?

W: A little bit harrowed, a touch haunted. I feel like I need some kind of mild therapy, and I’ve seen all of Lars Von Trier’s films. Maybe I’ll check in after this.

W: Did your parents react in a similar way?

S: They were supportive. We’ve always been very honest with each other. My mum would call me during the shoot and ask me what scenes I’d done that day. I’d be like, “I need to get this cast done [of my vagina], and we need to talk about this blowjob scene, then the porn doubles have to come in…” Mum was like, “Remember to take your vitamins!”

W: It’s a weird dichotomy, showing a film about sexual fetishes to an audience who has probably seen most of them play out on the Internet already. For instance, everyone knows what fisting is now, but they might not have known about it before the Internet kicked in. Was that something you considered when you accepted the role?

S: No, not really. The thing I really liked about the film is that anyone expecting to see a titillating porn film will be disappointed – it’s the near opposite of that. Obviously it’s sexually charged, but it’s not about the pleasure of watching someone have sex.

W: Tell me about about your part in High Rise. Is it another gruelling one? JG Ballard doesn’t really pen sensitive narratives…

S: I play a clerk and she’s so different from anything I’ve read before, so it’s really fun. She starts out very calm, and loses it. The building sort of revolts on itself.

W: Are you much of a Ballard fan?

S: I’ve only read Cocaine Nights. He writes in such a particular way, you hate it and you love it at once. The feeling that it’s all so, so bad – what’s going on makes you feel so uncomfortable. You completely indulge in it. It’s strange.

W: When you started getting into acting, did you envisage

yourself doing roles that pushed certain boundaries?

S: I never thought I’d work with Lars Von Trier so early in my career, that’s for sure. I’m a huge fan. It’s more the part I’d expect an actress to do after being rejected for twenty years, doing plays or short films. It’s something that’s always fascinated me, doing the parts that people run away from. Not because of the sexual content or anything, but because it’s a meaty role. I love that idea. I’m not just going to go on screen and play my usual, relatively contented self. I’d rather learn something and challenge myself. I might just end up asking, “What have I done? I’m crazy.” But at least I tried to find out and communicate something.

W: You also starred in a film called Winter this year. Was working with Heidi Greensmith on her first film a challenge, or amazing fun?

S: I never go, “I want to work with this person.” I never thought I’d work with Ben Wheatley [director, High Rise] or Heidi. She’s the first female director I’ve worked with and was really gentle. Lars loves women too, so it wasn’t that different. The directors I’ve worked with so far are obsessed with women: they kind of admire them so much that you don’t really feel like you’re working with a female or male director. You’re just working with an artist.

W: What’s the character like? The story?

S: It’s a story of two brothers who try and help their father out of depression and alcoholism. I play the girlfriend of the big brother. He tries to help but miserably fails. Some people have the best intentions at heart, but it never really works out. The faith my character has in people is quite endearing.

Fashion Editor: Danielle Emerson.

Photographer: Clare Shilland.

Hair:  Selena Middleton at SOHO Management using Kiehl’s Stylist Series.

Make Up: Thom Walker using Chanel Le Lift Serum & AW14.

Photography assistance:  Liam Hart.

Hair Assistance: Chloe Campbell.

Make up assistance:  Lois Moorcroft.

Fashion assistance: Georgina Thomas.

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Let’s face it, Mean Girls is one of the most important fashion/teen/youth culture movie ever made. Trying to count how many times you’ve seen it is like reciting the alphabet backwards after once too many Bacardi Breezers. This year marks ten at the top for Tina Fey and her snarly, wise-cracking high school clique, and to celebrate, we present Wonderland’s Mean Girls issue.

First in the line up of attitudinal femmes is Cady herself, Lindsay Lohan, who raids her fashion cupboard, laces up in Gucci, and wades into her new West End show, David Mamet drama Speed-the-Plow. Then there’s Barbara Palvin, who grabbed five from her globe-galavanting, runway-dominating schedule to skulk around the darkest corners of Shoreditch, tiara in tow. Nymphomaniac star and Miu Miu’s newest muse Stacy Martin chats taboo-busting in the name of art, and child star turned bigscreen beauty Saiorse Ronan chats staying DIY in spite of it all. The Champagne Supernova, the Regulation Hottie, the bookish risk-taker, the child genius: our cover girls line all corners of school canteen.  Just don’t try and sit with them.

To toast the launch of a new NYC-set Made In Chelsea series, likable ice queen Lucy Watson – the Regina George of SW3 – solves our relationship woes as Wonderland’s new agony aunt. Plus, Charli XCX – the bubblegum rave queen taking America by storm – chats with muse and PC Music’s ethereal export, Hannah Diamond and LA’s grunge experimentalists The Garden talk about being plucked from underground obscurity by Hedi Slimane himself.

Showcasing the season’s best fashion, we hit the halllugin-lit canteens of McDonald’s with Jeremy Scott and his newest obsession Lily McMenamy, and ask Petra Collins to round up her fave New York Dolls and dress them in Adam Selmen’s thrilling new line for fall. All this, and the best new photography around. Just like Tina’s Mean Girls, it’s all rather Fetch.

P.S. in case you haven’t guessed yet, every story is embedded with one of the film’s catchy-as-hell soundbites. Regulation!

Available to buy on magazinecafe.co.uk

Words: Jack Mills

Video: Sharna Osborne

Lindsay wears: Gucci

Photography: Alex Sainsbury

Styling: Danielle Emerson

Barbara wears: Meadham Kirchhoff

Photography: James White

Styling: Matthew Josephs

Stacy wears: Miu Miu

Photography: Clare Shilland

Styling: Danielle Emerson

Saoirse wears: Tom Ford

Photography: Stefan Khoo

Styling: Matthew Josephs

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Adopting an aesthetic of laid back ’60s cool, actress Stacy Martin appears as a modern-day Warholian superstar in Miu Miu’s latest campaign, shot by eminent fashion photographer, Steven Meisel. Channeling multiple feminine personas in monochrome set ups, the new darling of independent cinema and star of Lars Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac, projects a quiet strength.

Whilst Meisel’s bare sets and stark lighting accentuate her effortless beauty, bold yet harmonious texture contrasts – transparent plastic, quilted nylon, brocade, knit and astrakhan – are amplified by her subtle presence. As ever, Ttere is a mysterious undercurrent to Meisel’s cinematic images. A far-off look, arms folded, legs crossed, a finger provocatively raised to the lips all nod towards this intriguing aesthetic. Darkness and light exist side by side, whilst a split-screen effect suggesting another side to the story.

In the glittering canon of rising actresses who have starred in Miu Miu’s campaigns Martin takes her place as an enigmatic storyteller. In her hands the clothes become layers in a rich narrative of multiple femininities, the glamour of Warhol and living and dressing effortlessly.

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Over recent seasons Rag and Bone have proved they can bag the who’s who of Hollywood’s up and coming cool kids and they’ve gone and done it again for summer 2014, appointing American actor Emile Hirsch and French-born newcomer Stacy Martin, shot by Glen Luchford.

We’ve all heard of Emile, who first caught our eye in the early noughties and has since got a name for himself in hit flicks such as ‘Milk’ and ‘In To The Wild’. His next venture sees him next to Mark Wahlberg in Hollywood blockbuster ‘Lone Survivor’.
Stacy Martin is relatively unknown for know but will without a doubt make waves when Lars Von Trier’s controversial ‘Nymphomaniac’ starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe makes its premier at Cannes come May. We predict big things for her from there, with a solid modelling career already behind her shooting for Wonderland amongst an array of well-known fashion publications.

The campaign was shot in downtown L.A in an abandoned motel to represent the ‘less shiny side of L.A’, which see’s Emile utilising his ‘Lords of Dogtown’ skateboarding skills in the motels empty pool.

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