The actress joined forces with Miu Miu—and friend Liz Hannah, of The Post fame—to create the 15th short for the Italian label’s Women’s Tales series.

When Miu Miu asked Dakota Fanning to direct a short film (her first), she looked close to home for subject material. The final product? “Hello Apartment,” a spot-on, vivid portrait of how the spaces where we spend our formative years shape us into adults who may, someday, return to them and, all at once, remember everything. It also serves as an ode to Fanning’s own real-life apartment.

“Hello Apartment,” which premieres in London on Monday night, marks the 15th commission from Miu Miu’s Women’s Tales, which has previously featured shorts from legendary auteurs (Agnès Varda), groundbreaking directors (Ava DuVernay), and experimental multi-hyphenates (Miranda July and Chloë Sevigny). For the film, Fanning drew on her own formative first-apartment experiences. As she told Vanity Fair, “Even though my apartment’s very different from the one in the film, the experience of it is the same.” With the help of The Post writer and her friend Liz Hannah, Fanning perceptively captures how, as she put it, our homes become “shrine[s] to experiences” with the passage of time.

Told through the perspective of a Pepto pink-haired young woman named Ava (played by Irish actress Eve Hewson, of The Knick) who has just moved into an airy Brooklyn loft, the film traces her first love (with Tom Sturridge), loss, and inevitable red wine spills. It all comes with the knowing wisdom of a woman who’s been there and lived to tell the tale. Decades later, a much older Ava returns to this memory-charged, sunlit space to say, “Hello, apartment.”

If there’s one thing that fashion loves more than creating amazing clothes and accessories for us to wear, it’s giving back. Hence, super-chic designer Gabriela Hearst teamed with Italian leather goods brand Tod’s for a shoe collaboration that benefits Save the Children, an organization providing children in global communities with the tools for a better future. For all pairs of these incredibly cute brogues that are sold, 20 percent of the profits go to the charity. To bring awareness to the cause, stylish celebs like Dakota Fanning, model Lauren Hutton, street-style star Miroslava Duma, and even Hearst posed for a campaign in the shoe.

This super-easy slip-on style, which includes a perforated Morse code detail trim, is now available at Tod’s stores nationwide and at Tods.com. With five colorways to choose from, there’s a shoe for everyone. While the price tag comes in a little steep at $645, you can rest assured that your dollar is going to a worthy cause.

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