At the beginning of the new year, the creators of the Ins and Outs lists were at war. Is your bow out? Is the bow included? Is it not included after 2022? Does that mean it will definitely end by 2024? With an air of expertise, they reminded us that there is a bell curve to trend adoption. Has the aesthetic repopulated by Simone Rocha, Sandy Liang, and Shu Shu/Tong finally gotten off the ground? Prada doesn't think so.
The motif of silk ribbons was repeated over and over again at Muiccia Prada and Raf Simons' runway show in Milan today. The show sent dozens of shift dresses down the runway, almost comically covered in ribbons, glittering with flashes and overhead lights reflecting in a pearly sheen. These particular looks are further brought to the fore by the rest of the collection, which includes more authentic colors and more subdued tailoring. Many of the models wore military-style, helmet-like headgear decorated with what looked like bird feathers. The collection featured many long pencil skirts made of suit material, cropped cardigans and knits in pastel colors.
Like many other shows this season, Prada's show also included fur trims and collars, and there's no doubt that it's a visual point that fashion's biggest names are keen to achieve. . One model appeared wearing a seemingly random letterman jacket with the word P13 on the chest, a nod to Prada's 1913 founding. The actual garments felt a little out of place compared to the rest, but spoke to the more commercial trends we've seen in previous shows. That means bomber jackets and cropped sports jackets will definitely be featured on retail websites' new arrivals pages. By the end of the year.
“Sometimes what we love is visceral and irrational,” Simmons says. “It's not so normal to wear a cocktail dress and go skiing.”
The handbags in the collection were also quite girlishly decorated, but they were worn with an old lady's sophistication, dangling from the elbow, with the hand resting on the chest within reach, and with pearls. I was holding onto it. This speaks to something bigger that we always see in Ms. Prada's designs. In other words, Prada's aesthetic was born out of the tension between a young, enthusiastic ingenue and a woman who had seen modernity in many different forms throughout her life. In a year when grown women are clinging to the last juicy tubes of girlhood and young children are selling out Drunk Elephant products at Sephora, there's something very satisfying about this expression of relaxed femininity.
And while they seem to embrace or reject nostalgia in place of an imagined future like Schiaparelli's, Simmons and Prada actually believe that nostalgia is the best the past has to offer. Not yet.
“It's not about nostalgia,” Prada said. “We often look into history to learn something. An intellectual once said that to remove a part of the past is to uncage it.”
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Prada Fall/Winter 2024
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Prada A/W24's little black dress has been redefined. You can't really dress down except for this.
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Prada Fall/Winter 2024
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Prada sent this midi shift dress down the runway with fur trim, bows, and what appeared to be pink velvet.
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Prada Fall/Winter 2024
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This nylon Prada dress incorporates elements of coquette and sports trends.
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Prada Fall/Winter 2024
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This nightgown-like look is one of the hero looks of the collection in my opinion.
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Prada Fall/Winter 2024
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After Bowes received the whip of the century from fashion girls earlier this year, this dress was Miuccia Prada's only point of discussion before she left the room.
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Prada Fall/Winter 2024
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Prada couldn't make a pink ribbon dress without making a purple ribbon dress.
