Miuccia Prada is today completing a project that she began more than 20 years ago – 20 years now that the brand’s creative director has been playing with the art of unexpected matchings, bringing “bad taste” into the upper ranks of couture with a conscious degree of freedom. It’s by signing off on her “Premonitions” collection that this mainstay of the fashion sphere has introduced a femininity that’s more in line than ever. By reconciling precious with ordinary, austere and profuse in fabrics, Prada is highlighting “the allegory of woman with the progression of nature”, preparing for “unexpected relations that celebrate the strength of femininity”.
Hyper-feminine and conquering, the Prada woman of next season is perfectly in line with the brand’s traditions of hybrid avant-gardism – an assembly of references and inspirations will no doubt help lift up this no-holds-barred heroine. She slips on a tailored brocade floral dress, assuming a vertiginous stratification with the assistance of leather or cotton bodices. Indeed, the Prada woman wants to remain engraved in history – she seems to have traversed wars, eras, and even the fast-fashion fad.
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