"Simple. But very, very fashionable ". They are the words of the same Miuccia Prada to tell her about the men's collection designed together with Raf Simons.
Prada SS23
This collection is a choice due to a decision: to try to make the complex simple.
Prada SS23
The show opens with a series of black dresses with straight, skinny trousers with single-breasted, double-breasted or semi-double-breasted jackets. “The collection focuses on the concept of simplicity as a choice and represents one of the fashion and trend ideas that interest us. The intent was to design clothes that people could actually wear, but that made an impact. For us, fashion is this ”he says Miuccia Prada.
On the catwalk, set up like a model of a paper house and oversized beyond measure, parade, on the notes of 'Youth against fascism' of the Sonic Youth, Vichy cotton overcoats, featherweight trench coats, combined with leather shorts, mini urban caftans with triangles marked by fluorescent profiles, almost a trace of the return to the painter's shirt. And again, zipped biker-style leather shorts, trompe l'oeil jumpsuits in denim. A work of subtraction and reduction that also goes through the details, such as the collars removed from shirts and coats, tight pants that stop at the ankle or get shorter. Password: remove the superfluous. As in the sartorial black suits that wink at the suits seen in 'Reservoir Dogs'by Quentin Tarantino. Tenderness and toughness, with traces of that dark side of America and California in the 90s and the rebellious kids of New Wave, dear to Raf Simons.
Prada SS23
"We put the leather fabric in contact with the body and the cotton externally, creating a strange anti-logic in the union of the garments, a singularity", explained Raf Simons, “The combination of untreated and more refined elements is also important in this collection. The contrast between classicism and spontaneity confers sensitivity, an emotion ".
Many guests in the room, from Jeff Goldblum a Jake Gyllenhaal, Rami Malek to Michael Elmgreen, but the real stars acclaimed by a very young audience are the South Korean singer Jeong Jae-hyun, from the boy band NCT, and his compatriot Song Kang.