Miuccia Prada, at 68, is consistently the most on-point cultural barometer of any of the major designers, and her latest collection is no different. While other fashion houses have tried to embody the current moment of woman energy in the form of slogan tees and pussy hats, Prada got right to the spirit of it.
The shaggy purple staircases and columns at Miu Miu’s runway appropriately set the tone for Tuesday’s Fall/Winter 2017 show at Paris Fashion Week, because Miuccia Prada’s lineup had plenty of hats, stoles, and coats that all looked like they’d feel absurdly soft if you rubbed them against your face. Hell, it’d…
Miuccia Prada always tells a story with her extravagant looks, and tonight in Milan the set gave away the plot: a runway organized into individual cubicles furnished by neatly made single beds and decorated with posters and collages, just like the shared rooms at some finely appointed boarding school.
One of the most fascinating details in a new WWD interview with the ever-fascinating feminist designer Miuccia Prada is that she has a Carsten Höller slide in her office that directs from behind her desk to an outside courtyard. Others have opined about this—a similar slide traveled to the New Museum in 2011—but I…
Miuccia Prada makes such cultish clothes due to her eye for detail and always-unique sensibilities, but it is also because her feminist instincts always seem to square with what super-smart women want to be wearing right now. That, and her lefty sense of humor, which manifested for Fall in corsets on almost every…
The latest WWD has a piece on how individual designers interpret women's struggles in fashion, pegged in part to the "feminist protest" Karl Lagerfeld staged for Chanel's Spring 2015 runway. And, predictably, Karl says some pretty wacky things about it. Side eye.
Miuccia Prada's spring 2014 line, shown in Milan as part of Milan Fashion week, has a fairly overt feminist message. Several of the looks featured bras worn as outerwear, a subversive and confident take on traditional femininity. The collection also featured knitted prints of women's faces, athletic socks, and a…
Two months before the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute show dedicated to Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada opens, the New Yorker's Judith Thurman has a lengthy story about the show. It appears Thurman didn't get to speak to Prada for the piece, but she did interview the curators. And perhaps best of…
If you live in or are visiting New York City or its environs and you do not go see the Carsten Höller show that just opened at the New Museum, I don't want to ever see your Philistine face in here again. Okay? Okay. There's a pill-clock. And one experiential piece that employs a simple sensory illusion to make you…
With models like Crystal "Vogue Paris" Renn becoming true crossover stars, and agents like Gary Dakin of Ford+ reporting so much demand that he turns work down, it seems like the fashion industry is finally starting to recognize the beauty of bodies that aren't runway-sample-sized. Here are five plus-size models we…
Images understood to be from Prada's spring campaign have leaked. The ads may not have undergone final retouching (we can't tell) but all signs point to their authenticity. Other sites have removed the pictures, but we believe they're pretty newsworthy!
