Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons’s latest collection felt extra rebellious during a season where pared-back fashions can be found on every runway.
Fashion designers Miuccia Prada & Raf Simons at the runway at the Prada fashion show during the Milan Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 on September 21, 2023 in Milan, Italy.showed its spring 2024 collection on September 21, a whole new world of outfit formulas were revealed—along with a major dose of the deliciously hard-and-soft juxtapositions of the Italian label we know best.
The collection, presented during Milan Fashion Week, opened with narrow, high-waist, paper-bag belted shorts; a matching jacket with big sleeves; and a silky scarf thrown over the shoulder—a sort of demi-cape. Next came a parade of sheer, gauzy, pastel dresses—liquid in appearance, like gossamer pieces of glass candy. As the models walked, the fabric billowed in the wind, creating a surreal and cinematic effect that was impossible to capture in photos.
by Babes in Toyland. It all felt rebellious and brave during a season in which minimalism can be found on every runway. Since Simons and Mrs. Prada joined forces in 2020, each Prada collection has been a careful study and consideration of each designer’s aesthetic. Simons’s cult classics came through in the boyish suiting, oversize workwear coats, sturdy shirts, and finally, the big-sleeve energy that grounded the whole show. As Mrs. Prada and Simons took their final bow, Fabio Zambernardi, design director for Miu Miu and Prada since November 2002, also took a bow this time—his final farewell to the brand.
Let Prada spring 2024 inspire your next season of dressing: relish in sheer skirts and little scarves as layering techniques andto nestle in the crook of your arm. Live for the interesting spaces between artful embellishment and utilitarian workwear; little fringe dresses covered in beading look so right with a big Carhartt-like jacket. No brand mines this oddly satisfying kind of juxtaposition better than Prada.
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