Sometimes she is an artist, sometimes she is a canvas.
Miley Cyrus is making fashion history as Maison Margiela’s first face in 40 years.
“The singer of the ‘Flower’ for the 2025/Winter Avan Premiere Campaign in the French House Fall/Winter 2025 was photographed by renowned Italian photographer Paolo Robersi.
In some painters’ portraits, Cyrus appears to be accessory only in handbags and tear tabi boots, except for nude for white brush strokes.
“Paolo’s nude is so iconic and signature to his art. Standing naked for a fashion campaign felt a major thing,” the 32-year-old said in the release. “All I was wearing was body paint and signature painted Tabi boots. At that moment, Marguilla and I were one.”
The portrait refers to the label’s iconic Bian Chetto technique, first featured in 1989 by founder Martin Margiela.
With a biancet, a layer of white paint is painted on furniture, clothing, and now the body, reducing each surface to a blank canvas, symbolically revealing “tracks of time.”
One image may seem familiar to longtime Cyrus fans. The over-the-shoulder pose reflects the infamous 2008 Vanity Fair photo shoot by Annie Leibovitz.
The image caused a media fire at the time, causing both the stars and the magazine to apologise, but later the singer changed her song.
“Sorry,” the singer posted on Twitter in 2018 with a photo of the New York Post cover from April 28, 2008.
Leibovitz defended the portrait in 2008, saying it was the masses who needed to catch up.
Almost 20 years later, Cyrus was stripped again on her own terms.
