Miu Miu Lets the Polish Wander Past the Edge

Miu Miu has sent out a manicure that looks deliberately unfinished, with lacquer running past the line where any New York nail technician would have stopped. On its face it is a beauty note, but the more interesting idea sits under it: a fashion house putting forward a flawed finish and asking us to look twice. For readers who book their standing appointments from Palm Beach to Beverly Hills, it raises a question about craft itself, which is whether the clean edge we pay for is the point, or only one way of showing taste. Whether it reaches the salon chair or stays on the page, it makes a good case that intention counts as a kind of polish.

With reporting from Harper's Bazaar.