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Prada's Skirts Take Centre Stage as Milan Fashion Week Begins
The collection paired heavy skirts with bra tops as Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons pushed a hyperfeminine direction for the season.
On Tuesday, Prada kicked off Milan Fashion Week with its Spring-Summer 2027 show, centering skirts and bra tops as the collection's defining elements. Designers Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons presented to front-row guests Naomi Watts, Michelle Williams, and Uma Thurman.
This show followed the inauguration of Prada's new flagship store within the 19th-century Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II. The expansion adds an underground gallery, museum, and private salons designed to host events and pamper the brand's wealthiest clients in Milan.
Despite macroeconomic tensions and a slowdown in the Chinese market, Prada posted better-than-expected results for the first half of 2026. Carlo Capasa, head of the Italian fashion chamber, said the sector held up in the second quarter, calling it a "miracle" that the industry stayed afloat.
LVMH has invested in new boutiques, including a multi-storey Dior location and a Loro Piana factory inaugurated last week. Toni Belloni, president of LVMH Italy, noted that "many houses having changed designers, which inevitably sparks interest in the fashion world."
Elsewhere during Milan Fashion Week, Glenn Martens will present his final collection at Diesel after moving the brand upmarket over the past five years. Other debuts include Moschino, Gucci, and Fendi as the industry navigates significant creative transitions.
Who knows what Minister Tajani would think of these skirts from the modestly calibrated edge just below the knee, go on stage today on the Prada catwalk in the parade that officially kicked off this Milan Fashion Week. To a hasty or distracted look, perhaps, would pull even a great sigh of relief: silhouettes composed, linear, [...] L'articolo Milano Fashion Week 2026, Prada dedicates an entire collection to the skirt: Â Invita alla cont…