Raf Simons and Miuccia Prada bring the essentials of the wardrobe to the stage, but with the inevitable twist à la Prada. And so, the severe rigor of minimalist sweaters, with clean lines, is broken by the combination with floral and hyper-feminine white skirts: it is pure poetry, and a clear signal of wanting to celebrate rebirth. The emotion comes from that strong contrast that we never imagined we could experience. Ordinary and extraordinary become one.
Vogue.it
If the brand has been selling a lot of Cleo bags and Chocolate loafers, it’s going to start selling a lot of clothes, too, after this collection stuffed full of neo-classic Prada wardrobing pieces.
WWD
Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons have done it again. Working together to craft cohesive collections that push Prada into the future, the duo has redefined the standard Prada uniform with a subtle edge, luxury, and exquisite craftsmanship that speaks for itself.
Hypebeast
Thursday’s Prada show was an absolute smash—probably the loveliest and most exciting collection that Mrs. Prada and Raf Simons have shown since he joined her for their first-of-its-kind collaborative partnership as co-creative directors three years ago.
Harper’s Bazaar USA
From the start of their collaboration, Prada and Simons have sought to give their clothes a solid grounding in reality. There’s plenty of newness. Indeed, no one in the high-fashion sphere is better at raising the roof of anticipation than these two, and that’s partly because their ideas are not frivolous. Rather, they arise from the fundamentals of fashion — shape, proportion, a new way of looking at beauty and the past.
The Cut
The entire vision of the show was created with great care, one that melded and brought the importance to finding beauty in everyday simplicities and celebrating extravagant details. Prada is always a few steps ahead with its designs, and I expect these bags and collection to become part of the Prada modern-day uniform.
Purseblog.com
A show for special occasions and a fashion concept that leaves no room for hesitation and hits the mark. The spirit of the house is powerful, the outerwear is beautiful, the dresses are interesting. The collection unfolds and spreads its clothing wings to carve a beautiful series of garments that intelligently range among more designed silhouettes.
Mf Fashion
However, it is precisely the sexy nurses who summarize the message of a particularly sharp and successful attempt, reassuring in its pounding pradism but new in the angular tension that characterizes it.
Il Sole 24 Ore
But elevated details and haute couture references – an exaggerated point on a ballet pump, pleating in the back of a coat for a grander silhouette – subtly transformed ordinary clothes into exquisite pieces. The applause at the end was thunderous.
The Guardian
It is every fashion editor’s favourite item of clothing: not the heels and cocktail frocks they write about but the humble navy jumper. No wonder, then, that Prada — which placed that item front and centre on its catwalk in Milan yesterday — is one of this crowd’s favourite labels. Not just navy, either, but black, grey and camel versions, worn with a bright white midi-skirt decorated with trailing appliqué flowers and origami twists. Some of those were voluminous, others pencil-like or tube, while matching white pointed-toe court shoes had low and curved walkable heels. Heaven. Expect to see similar on the city’s pavements within hours.
The Times
Like the guests at our side who wildly applaud Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons’ salute at the end of the show. Yes, this winter 2023-2024 collection places the brand at the head of the new fashion cycle: chic, again. But, here, radical, personal, portable, desirable. Prada’s art has always been to encapsulate the most intimate, carnal feminine desire in an uncompromising, uniform-like silhouette. The other talent of the house is to arouse in you an irrepressible desire for a heather gray round neck sweater, just marked with the triangle logo on the back. And this sweater, so basic in the eyes of neophytes, is the Holy Grail for those who love fashion, in its most traditional sense of the term.
Le Figaro