New Delhi, Oct. 8 -- At Palais d'Iena, Miu Miu's clear view of work and care outpaced the chatter around Thylane Blondeau.

Paris -Outside the Palais d'Iena, the usual flash storm collected around familiar faces, and inside, the Miu Miu runway offered its own test of attention, a meditation on work, routine, and the power of clothes that look like they have lived a life. The debate that trailed in from the street, chatter about a young woman who grew up under headlines she did not write, brushed up against a show that kept insisting on substance. What happens when a camera follows someone from childhood, what happens when a brand asks whether fashion can honor the labor that holds the world together. Those questions overlapped in this roo...