Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons joined forces for the spring/summer 2021 collection. Their first creative conversation examined how mediation between technology and humanity has brought people together during the Covid-19 crisis.
The co-creative directors are as contemplative in looking at how a fusion between disparate themes and intents mirrors the nature of humanity and the fact that men and women each hold the masculine and feminine within themselves.
Prada autumn/winter 2021 womenswear collection explores the space that exists between conventional polar opposites -- the point between simplicity and complexity, elegance and practicality, limitation and release, transmuted.
Freedom and energy are unleashed through fitted bodysuits in stretch jacquard-knit, as representations of and substitutions for exposed skin.
(Photos courtesy of Prada)
Physical movements are facilitated by the garments' softness and inherent ease. Tailored suits feature vents that allow glimpses of the body while dresses are animated by pleats and gathers.
Clothes are translated from one intent to another -- ornament can become functional, the pragmatic can become decorative.
The obvious is re-engineered, so evening-gowns become utilitarian jumpsuits and tailored coats are proposed in bright colour or executed in paillettes, transforming and mutating between antonymous purposes.
Rectilinear wraps morph, their pure architecture transmuting into the foundation for new forms of outerwear. Executed in re-nylon and jacquard, faux fur and sequins, they retain a closing gesture, symbiotically symbolic of protection, and of grace.
