Collection archive
Prada Spring/Summer 2024
Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons explore lightness, formal tailoring and an archival handbag design in a show at Fondazione Prada’s Deposito.
- Collection year
- 2024
- Show date
- 2023-09-21
- City
- Milan
- Creative direction
- Miuccia Prada & Raf Simons
- Shown in
- Milan
- Presentation format
- runway
- Venue
- Deposito, Fondazione Prada
At a glance
Prada’s Spring/Summer 2024 womenswear collection places light, floating dresses alongside architectural interpretations of menswear tailoring. Its accessories bring the house’s earliest history into the present: a bag conceived by Mario Prada around 1913 returns in new materials. The setting extends the clothes’ interest in fluidity, with moving partitions of pink slime interrupting a metal-lined space.
Lightness
Floating fabrics loosen the relationship between a garment and the body beneath it.
Formal shapes, reconsidered
Elements of menswear tailoring become a starting point for architectural womenswear silhouettes.
An archive revisited
A 1913 handbag is reinterpreted in nappa leather and Re-Nylon, retaining its distinctive carved clasp.
The setting
Pink slime formed shifting divisions across the showspace. Metal surfaces, a peach-coloured floor and a pink ceiling provided its architectural frame.
Creative credits
Co-creative direction: Miuccia Prada. Co-creative direction: Raf Simons. Archival handbag design: Mario Prada, circa 1913
Designer perspective
“For this collection, we wanted to focus on the work - the methods and techniques, the value.” — Miuccia Prada, Prada show quotes via SHOWstudio
Coverage & analysis
Prada Spring 2024 Ready-to-Wear Collection — Vogue