This collection is more of a consideration of the strength of
women, an emphasis on an inherent authority found in that which is intrinsically feminine rather than a negation of identity. The raiments of glamour and beauty serve as an aesthetic shorthand for typical definitions of femininity that are synonymous with a softness, a fragility, a sensuality. On the runway those qualities are championed to be challenged, their reflection in visual rhetoric surrendering examples combined deliberately to contradict, undermine, and propose new meaning. Paradoxically, delicacy can define strength.
Tactility and animation emphasize kinesthetic awareness. Vents, layered fringes, and deconstructed pleats reveal skin and underscore locomotion. Movement is tied to the corporeal, to athleticism, hence the sportswear.
Daily dressing is corrupted by glamour, forms, and functions challenged, shifted from practical to aesthetic. Power can be found in pleasure with combinations of elements from this lexicon of glamour express command, even force. Strict suits are countered in their juxtaposition with lingerie
components; minaudières, mirrored compacts, purses, and bijoux – mechanisms of female self-representation are cross-bred with utilitarian fabrications in nylon and metal. Like functional tools a symbol of women, flowers are a recurrent motif in varied applications. The concept of the “fur coat” is exploded, imitated through shearling or fringe, its silhouette mirrored in padded nylon. Volume creates hourglass echoes of the eternal feminine, cinched at the waist. Colors are extreme,
fabrications surreal in their incongruity. Throughout, nevertheless, there is an innate, palpable reality – a sense of the indomitability of humanity, of nature, of the continuation of life. Clothing mirrors the pluralism and complexity of female identities – of women embodying multiple ideas of the ‘self’, simultaneously. They defy any simplistic categorization – they reflect the ever-fluctuating rapport of women with their own identities. Prada.
SS 2022
Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons
Travis Scott and Kim Jones
SS2022
Neon
Couture Goes Virtual
Winter Ready
Grey Gardens
FW 2021
Shadow Project
Lightening Strikes
FW 2021
Color Me Regal
Mens FW21
At Forty
Fall Winter 2021
Couture
F/W 2021
Neo-Luxury
SS 2021
Mens Summer 2021
Spring Summer 2021
S/S 2021
Being Fabulous Is Easy
SS21
Spring Summer 2021
Woman's FW2020
Fall Winter 2020
Fall WInter 2020
Synchronous yet antonymous
Couture Sustainability
Art and the Avant-Garde
Fall/Winter 2020
Volume 4
Fall-Winter 2020
Launches ReBurberry
Fall-Winter 2020 - In The Mix
FW 2020
Summer of Simone
Oriental Pop
Valli Girls and Valli Boys
By Riccardo Tisci
Prada at Silo Hall of Minsheng Wharf in Shanghai.
Man and Machine - Precise Construction