This was everything. The perfect marriage of two minds, Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons, the paillette trimmed perfection and the broad shouldered masculinity. A turning point that made us want to run not walk to the store and offer the least resistance. Titled “an ideology of Prada” the collection brought together histories, glimmers of past moments, the 90s with fragile transparencies worn with nicely OS jumpers. Delicate. And then the added volume came sauntering in grey tailoring and the typical Mrs Prada volume in those tailored swing skirts. Add to checklist.

“Tailoring combined with the language of evening clothes” read the show notes -  is our kind of language bringing joy to our fashion starved hearts. The feathers frothing at bicep level on coat sleeves and the pure and continuing play on the Prada triangle, in the shape of bags and heels was more than fun. It was fairly fizzing. Tiny embroideries. Touches of sparkle. Perhaps we loved it so much because it had the committed clarity of twisty darkness that lies at the core of the best Prada collections.
“In practice an ideology of Prada becomes an etymology of beauty. And that is centrally the work of fashion - the process of defining the meaning of beauty for today,” was the sign off. We are still processing.

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