‘Little ingredients but well executed’: Prada design duo outline minimalist vision

Speaking backstage before the Prada show at Milan fashion week on Sunday, co-designers Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons described their latest collection as 'breaking the perception of what is perceived as typical luxury in high fashion right now'. It was a purified version of Prada: a rejection of experimental shapes, techniques and decoration, distilled to pieces that are 'intentional and meaningful'.

Simons compared the approach to pasta al pomodoro — 'little ingredients but well executed'. The components included 'jeans, a jeans jacket, a T-shirt, one timeless blazer and a leather blouson', with jeans as the 'most universal item in fashion'. The opening look paired white jeans and a white denim jacket with a navy blazer; none of the show's 50 looks featured blue denim, but those white jeans were reimagined in leather in colours including banana, Pepto-Bismol pink and aubergine.

Italy, Milan

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