The Fall collection is a reflection on care, routine, and time as lived experience. Through sequential imagery and repeated gestures, everyday acts of tending, dressing, and waiting are revealed, labor not as background, but as the structure that holds daily life together.
The images in this photoshoot pay homage to the work of conceptual artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles, whose Maintenance Art Manifesto 1969! reframed the unseen work of care and as a mother as a creative practice. Her work also opens a broader conversation about how economic systems depend upon, and often fail to value, the physical labor of women’s bodies. Anna Wallack, Misha & Puff’s founder and creative director, was especially moved by Ukeles’s Dressing to Go Out/Undressing to Go In, a series documenting the repetitive rituals of dressing her children to leave the house and undressing them again upon returning home. Being a mother herself at the time that she first viewed the work, Anna recognized the profound tension Ukeles described: the joy of caregiving alongside its relentless, often invisible demands. Ukeles’s work suggests that care is not simply repetitive labor, but a way of seeing that through everyday rituals — like getting dressed and raising children — the ordinary becomes an act worthy of attention.
That perspective resonates deeply with the Misha & Puff ethos: that everyday life is worthy of your favorite clothes, of dressing up, of taking a picture. These moments gesture outward, and invite us to look again. These rituals are not interruptions to life, they are life itself. There is a quiet joy in this time, and in the moments that link together these seemingly ordinary acts. Care becomes something ongoing, present, and shared, the true substance of our days.
Photography by Leonard Greco.