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Miuccia, Raf and the Future of Prada

Inside fashion’s most idiosyncratic, influential design duo. ‘Why don’t we do over-decoration?’ Raf asks. Miuccia’s exuberant reply? ‘Yes!’
Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons at the end of Prada’s Women’s Spring/Summer 2022 show.
Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons at the end of Prada’s Women’s Spring/Summer 2022 show. (Prada)
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War looms in Eastern Europe. “This is not the time for pure fantasy,” Miuccia Prada sagely observed during our Zoom call on Sunday. It seemed an appropriate moment to revisit the question she posed two years ago, as the pandemic first made its presence felt in fashion. How can fashion be meaningful at a time like this?

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Tim Blanks is Editor-at-Large at The Business of Fashion. He is based in London and covers designers, fashion weeks and fashion’s creative class.

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