The collection began as love letter to brocade, with outfits expressing tension between vintage fashion and modern design
Backstage after the Prada spring/summer collection, it soon became clear that the audience was conflicted. "Mrs Prada, was it about the 70s?" asked one. "It was about the future, right?" suggested another. Miuccia Prada beamed with pride. "For me, this is a success," she said.
She had a point to make, but as ever it wasn't really about clothes. "I am fixated with craftsmanship," she said. "Not just in fabric but in furniture, in chandeliers. More and more I am obsessed with antiquity, and the elements of the past that are not possible today."
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