Prada’s Fall 2025 ready-to-wear collection isn’t here to provide answers—it’s here to ask the right questions. What does femininity mean today? Is it softness, power, contradiction? In a show that felt like a philosophical dialogue stitched into fabric, Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons deconstructed and reimagined the codes of classic femininity, proving that the only constant in fashion is its ability to change.
At first glance, the collection plays with displacement—dresses don’t behave the way they should. Elements are removed, shifted, reassembled, creating silhouettes that feel both disrupted and newly whole. A neckline becomes a hem, a sleeve folds into an unexpected shape, a coat’s structure dissolves into something entirely different. It’s an exercise in controlled chaos, where garments move beyond their original function and into something stranger, freer.
Rawness is key here. Fabrics that should be polished are intentionally undone—exposed seams, rough edges, untypical materials that challenge our understanding of luxury. Even the models’ hair echoed this sense of deliberate imperfection—strands left messy, windswept, and slightly undone, as if they had just stepped out of an entirely different reality. The beauty look reinforced the collection’s central theme: femininity is not about precision or predictability; it’s about fluidity, contradiction, and constant evolution.
And yet, just when you think the collection is all deconstruction, Prada and Simons throw in a curveball: moments of pure, unfiltered glamour. Opulent accessories—jewel-encrusted bows, handbags with sculptural precision, unapologetic embellishments—act as counterpoints to the stripped-back, almost industrial aesthetic of the clothing. It’s a balancing act between rawness and refinement, a reminder that femininity has never been a singular, fixed idea.
The show space itself doubled down on this tension. Set within the Deposito of the Fondazione Prada, the environment was transformed by metal scaffolding juxtaposed against a plush carpet designed by Catherine Martin. The contrast—hard versus soft, structure versus decoration—mirrored the push and pull happening within the collection, making the space an extension of the garments themselves.
Prada has long been in the business of redefining beauty, and this collection continues that tradition. But rather than dictate what beauty or femininity should be, it opens the floor for discussion. Can something raw be elegant? Can something traditional be subversive? The answer, much like Prada’s vision, remains fluid. And maybe that’s the point.
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