There’s nothing fairly like the excitement surrounding a Prada present. Not solely is it one of the crucial essential manufacturers on the Milan Fashion Week schedule, nevertheless it’s one of the crucial highly effective, profitable and influential luxurious labels on the planet, too. On a extra sensible degree, nonetheless, Prada is the model that fashionable ladies flip to for some semblance of an on a regular basis uniform—so every new assortment acts as a fairly correct predictor for the way insiders will probably be dressing within the close to future.
If the Spring/Summer 2026 assortment is something to go by, then, plainly subsequent yr we’ll all be carrying assertion midi skirts, utility shirts, lashings of gray, and some splendidly surprising color mixtures. A basic Miuccia mixture of simply elegant utilitarian glamour—that also feels contemporary.
Kerry Washington and Carey Mulligan
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Held in a huge, orange-floored warehouse on the outskirts of Milan, the Prada SS26 present drew a sometimes starry entrance row, together with longtime, high-profile devotees corresponding to Emma Chamberlain, Carey Mulligan, Kerry Washington, Maya Hawke and Sadie Sink. They—together with the good and the great of the worldwide trend neighborhood—watched on in seen delight as fashions emerged in Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons’ newest must-have designs.
Explaining the inspiration behind the gathering, entitled ‘Body of Composition’, Mrs Prada mentioned: “Inevitably, when we create we think about the world around us. The future is unknown. This collection is about reacting to the uncertain—clothes that can shift, change, adapt. In the combination of the different elements, in this idea of composition, there is a choice and freedom, authority and agency for the woman wearing them. It is fashion that is connected inherently to the world, with a meaning and usefulness. How to face the world, and how to survive.”
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Hence: items which are equal elements sensible and innately stylish, mild and unrestrictive of their kind, made to be moved round in and endlessly mixed—usually in surprising methods. Silky night minis have been layered over contrasting bubble-style skirts; utilitarian jumpsuits have been elevated with luxurious supplies, and paired with silk opera gloves; leather-based jackets turned ladylike in pale pinks and greens; masculine overshirts topped shiny satin bloomers, and gray workwear blazers have been worn with mushy matching bras.
The skirts have been undoubtedly the celebrities of the present, nonetheless, and statement-making in all their varieties. Some have been comprised of puffed-up taffeta, whereas others got here in shiny jewel tones, high-waisted and tied up with a ribbon, and there have been some easy(ish) black designs too. But the standouts have been made up of a fashionable mish-mash of supplies, textures and tones: a high-fashion, luxurious Prada-coded tackle Chopova, if you’ll.
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As for the equipment, they have been glorious as ever. Standouts included black structured leather-based luggage—the brand new cult work bag, little doubt—, costume-style colored crystal earrings, ‘work within the entrance, occasion within the again’ heels with diamanté tassels, and silk pouches harking back to mud luggage that can (hopefully) make for a extra entry-level funding.
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