The day we’ve all been waiting for is finally here. From opera shawls and built-in fanny packs to Swiss-cheese cutouts and mullet bangs, this is your debrief on the Prada/Simons uniform
The news that Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons would join forces as co-creative directors of Prada was handed down to a small gathering of fashion journalists via a revelatory press conference during Milan Fashion Week in February—thus beginning the countdown to one of the fashion world’s most eagerly anticipated collection unveilings of all time, from two of its most formidable talents.
All parties have kept hush in the intervening months, with the details originally set out during the Milan conference providing pretty much the only reliable roadmap for what lay ahead.
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A uniform needs to also express something that is more timeless for me than a season-specific fashion item. It’s a base.”
Raf Simons, Prada’s co-creative director
“I feel very at ease in the situation,” Simons revealed today, while also later describing himself as “the outsider” who is watching and seeing the Prada brand from the inside for the first time. “This is a beginning […] That’s the beauty of it, that we don’t know where we are going,” Prada added.