Miu Miu, Dior and YSL show how beauty in 2025 is channeling fashion’s ‘it bags’

Published: 5-Nov-2025

From the matelassé bottle housing Miu Miu’s Miutine to Dior’s Lady Dior-inspired make-up, inspiration is close to home writes Julia Wray

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As you stroll from the bags and accessories section of your favourite luxury department store to peruse its beauty hall, you may be forgiven for experiencing a sense of déjà vu. 

You pause to test Miu Miu’s new gourmande chypre EDP Miutine and – running your thumb across the contours of its bottle – think “this is familiar”.

Or maybe it is the couture compacts for YSL Beauty’s Make Me Blush making you do a double take?

Eventually, you reach Dior’s beauty concession and treat yourself to Diorshow Overvolume, the most recent mascara in the Diorshow line – a nod to the brand’s Lady Dior handbag minus the £5,000 price tag.

It is official. In 2025, you cannot avoid beauty’s hottest reference: the quilted handbag.

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