‘A brand new class’ is how Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons described their S/S 2026 Prada womenswear assortment, searching for to liberate clothes from its ‘hierarchies’ by shuffling up on a regular basis uniforms – a longtime contact level for the home – with opulent eveningwear, usually in the identical look.
‘This assortment is about reacting to the unsure – garments that may shift, change, adapt,’ stated Miuccia Prada after the present, held within the sparse Deposito showspace at Fondazione Prada this previous October in Milan, the ground flooded with orange-hued lacquer.
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A glance from Prada’s S/S 2026 womenswear present
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A collection of intelligent equipment captured this hybrid, shapeshifting temper, from easy drawstring pouches – like these used to retailer footwear – rendered in lustrous vibrant satin, or kitten-heeled pumps mashed up with the easy elastic plimsolls as soon as worn in PE lessons. Although maybe most placing – and a worthy Wallpaper* Design Award winner – are these glasses, whereby uniform-issue metal-framed opticals are adorned with a surreal bejewelled flourish on their temple ideas. As such, they’re eyewear and jewelry in a single.
‘We began from a way of freedom,’ says Simons of the gathering. ‘There’s the license to mix totally different components, to compose. [But] there’s additionally a bodily liberation, shifting away from trend as a sculptural imposition on the physique of a lady. We shifted into the other – bodily emancipation, but in addition freedom as a frame of mind… Uniform is a part of a Prada historical past – for us, there’s the concept a lady may be stunning, elegant and robust in a uniform. It’s a problem, to a hierarchy of notion. To free girls from this.’
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