There’s a certain magic to being the little sister. You’re underestimated, you’re talked over, cast as the afterthought—until you decide you’re not. Until you show up at the party and everyone realizes the joke’s on them because you’ve been paying attention all along. On Friday night, Miu Miu Beauty leaned into that energy with the Miutine Club, a downtown-gloss kind of gathering staged at Café Zaffri inside The Twenty Two.

The fragrance of the evening? Miutine, the house’s new gourmand floral—sweet but not saccharine, sharp enough to cut through the chatter. It’s the olfactory equivalent of borrowing your sister’s skirt and wearing it better. Gardenia and rose flirt at the top, grounded with patchouli and brown sugar, smoothed out with vanilla like a secret you’re not ready to share. “A gourmet cheekiness,” Miu Miu calls it, and they’re not wrong.

The guest list doubled as a syllabus in cool-girl archetypes: Chloë Sevigny, Paloma Elsesser, Emma Chamberlain, Lola Tung, Demi Singleton. Looks ran the gamut from schoolyard rebellion to late-summer wistfulness—pleated skirts teamed with slingbacks-and-socks, knits spliced in unexpected color-blocks, fall textures softened by bare shoulders. Back-to-school, but if detention was the only class worth attending.

And then there was Maggie Rogers, the Grammy-nominated siren who appeared unannounced and pulled the room into her orbit with a voice both tender and unstoppable. Even the most meticulously styled night can turn on a single raw moment—the kind of chaos little sisters thrive on.

Since its founding in 1993, Miu Miu has lived in Prada’s shadow only to weaponize it. Where the elder is precise, the younger experiments; where Prada commands respect, Miu Miu demands attention. That tension—between naivety and autonomy, uniform and undoing—has always been the Miu Miu girl’s allure. With Miutine, she has her scent: layered, irreverent, growing up without growing old.

Because being the little sister isn’t about waiting your turn. It’s about crashing the party, pocketing the spotlight, and leaving everyone else to wonder when you got so cool.

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