Miu Miu Literary Return

Miu Miu is bringing back its Literary Club to Milan Design Week with a three-day program on desire, sexuality and female empowerment from April 22 to 24. (wwd.com) The 2026 edition is titled “Politics of Desire” and will be held at Circolo Filologico Milanese, a historic venue that has hosted the program in recent years. WWD reported that Miuccia Prada is directing the event as part of Miu Miu’s cultural programming during the Milan design calendar. (wwd.com) This year’s discussions are built around two writers: Annie Ernaux, the French Nobel Prize winner, and Ama Ata Aidoo, the Ghanaian novelist, poet and former education minister. Event listings say the program will use their work to examine sexuality, consent and female autonomy. (fuorisalone.it) The Literary Club has become Miu Miu’s way of inserting books and panel discussions into a week better known for furniture launches, installations and brand activations across Milan. Fuorisalone, the citywide platform tied to Milan Design Week, lists the 2026 event in the Brera Design District program. (fuorisalone.it) The format is also getting longer. WWD said the 2026 edition runs three days, after the 2025 edition ran April 9 and 10 as a two-day program focused on girlhood, sexuality and love. (wwd.com) That 2025 program centered on Simone de Beauvoir’s “The Inseparables” and Fumiko Enchi’s “The Waiting Years,” with Miu Miu framing the conversations around women’s education and sex education. Fuorisalone’s 2025 listing described it as the second iteration of the club. (wwd.com; fuorisalone.it) Fuorisalone’s 2026 listing calls this the fourth edition, which places the Literary Club among a small group of fashion-backed events that now return annually during Milan Design Week rather than appearing as one-off brand exercises. (fuorisalone.it) Miuccia Prada has tied the project to a longer-running argument that fashion should stay connected to books, art and film. In a 2025 interview announcement, WWD linked the club to Prada’s earlier public call for young people to “read literature” and “study” as part of cultural life. (wwd.com) So while Milan Design Week fills up with objects to look at, Miu Miu is again carving out time for people to sit down and talk about what women want, who gets to define it, and how literature records the answer. (wwd.com; fuorisalone.it)