In ‘Discipline’, the 31st chapter of Miu Miu Women’s Tales, Mona Fastvold stages girlhood as ritual and rupture inside a Northern Italian boarding school, featuring the Miu Miu Spring/Summer 2026 collection.
Premiered in New York and set to stream globally on MUBI from March 13, the film marks a new collaboration between Mona Fastvold and choreographer Celia Rowlson-Hall, expanding the Miu Miu Women’s Tales series’ ongoing exploration of femininity in the 21st century.
At dawn, a silent boarding school fills with pairs of girls and life-sized dolls, each guided by a masked puppeteer. Dressing, playtime, inspection. The Principal Dress becomes both protagonist and constraint. Routine shapes the body before identity fully forms.
Fastvold frames girlhood as inherited performance. Garments from the Spring/Summer 2026 collection act as costume and armour, defining movement and gesture. “Clothing is never neutral. It is costume, control, ritual,” she states. The puppets embody the split between private self and public role, exposing how femininity is rehearsed long before it is chosen.
With an abstract score by Daniel Blumberg, ‘Discipline’ locates freedom in a subtle shift. “You may not yet know who you are, but you know how you are meant to move.” In that smallest deviation, a girl steps forward into the world, visible at last, still unfinished.
–
Follow us on TikTok @veinmagazine
