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Prada Fall 2017 MFW: City of Women

By Shreya S2 min read
Prada Fall 2017 MFW: City of Women runway

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Miuccia Prada insists she is not political, and then she builds a show like this one. Guests sat on beds in a set that looked like a teenage bedroom, the walls covered in pretend film posters and pin-ups of 1950s and 60s femmes fatales. The starting point was the title of Fellini’s City of Women, and one poster spelled it out: the collection looked at the role women have played in shaping modern society.

The clothes read like a woman looking back at every version of herself. It opened in the late 60s and early 70s, with the wardrobe of a student with ideas: flared corduroy, baker boy caps, scarves that looked knitted at home and coats pieced together from leather and snakeskin. Then came the 50s bombshell: fuzzy embroidered angora knits, a tight red cocktail dress with a flounced hem on Lindsey Wixson, turquoise and coral ostrich feathers on hemlines and crystal fringe swinging from lingerie nylon. And because it is Prada, there were coats throughout, from plain tweed checks to print-and-fur showpieces.

The cleverest part was the illustration. Prada commissioned Robert McGinnis, the artist behind the old Bond and Barbarella posters, to paint glamorous women for skirts and T-shirts. Imagery once dismissed as sexist was handed back to the women wearing it. That is the politics of seduction she keeps returning to: feathers and lingerie as weapons, not decoration.

This is one of the great Prada collections of the decade. It is warm, colourful and a little nostalgic, and it still has a point to make.

More Prada: browse every Prada and Miu Miu collection we have reviewed.

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Pictures courtesy of Vogue Runway

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