What felt quite different from the women’s collection presented in September was how seamlessly Prada and Simons’ individual aesthetics melded. Here was a compelling blast of forward-thinking fashion.
WWD
In the various silhouettes (jackets with sleeves rolled up high on the arms, wide pea coats with large buttons, derbies with platform soles…) one can spot the obsessions of the Italian and Belgian designers: two perfectly matching worlds, respectively sensual and dramatic, arty and intense.
Le Figaro
Prada, in the double person of the co-creative directors Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons, has welcomed the digital medium as a simple fact, in a pragmatic way, without getting too excited, producing impeccable videos for direction, editing, essential zoom on details. The proof is impeccable […]: at a time when the maximum desire is connection, this fashion made of knits and jacquard, invites you to touch while hypnotizing the gaze. It is also an unexpectedly sentimental fashion: Simons loads his fetish pieces, the bomber above all, with a tangible and nostalgic sensitivity, as a true obsessive of subcultures.
Il Sole 24 ore
You can feel the talent and see the mutual respect in the minds of the two designers, which seem to interact like communicating vessels. The brand is back on the attack, aggressive, and not afraid to leave its mark. It has no fear of logos, and is happy to face the questions of those from outside the fashion world. And the latest result of the coming together of Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons – two creative spirits who on paper could not seem further apart – is striking. Instead of clamming up in self-satisfied harmony, this collision has actually created one of the most captivating examples of a natural shared openness to the world.
MF Fashion
Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons tackle the fashion of winter 2021-22 by opening up a dialogue between the individual and their physicality, and choose a ‘liberating’ garment from men’s underwear – long johns, the long, thin leggings that were once hidden beneath our clothes. […] Underwear on the one hand, voluminous and classically perfect tailoring on the other. […]. Yet, for the first time in a Prada catwalk show, suddenly someone dances, moves, offering release (once again) to the body. An impulse that reflects our current restrained situation, forced to shut ourselves in and keep our distance, an urgent need the duo perceives very well.
Corriere della Sera
Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons see long johns […] as epitomising the times we are living through. In their hands this reasoning makes sense, and the fact they manage to convince their audience provides conclusive proof of the grasp the two creatives, making their second outing as co-designers at the Italian brand, have of our shared consciousness.
La Repubblica
To put it simply: Miuccia and Raf’s AW21 menswear collection is the sartorial equivalent of a long, warm hug. (…) Here was another fascinating (and incredibly desirable) meditation on the way we live now.
i-d.vice.com
It was ,however, the colourful, geometric-print bodysuits worn under every look that really stole the show.
Evening Standard
If there’s one thing we will be noting from this collection is its excellent outerwear. The oversized bomber jackets juxtaposed against the tight bodysuits, the experimental layering and the fun colors all created a perfect vision of the Prada universe with Miccua and Raf hand-in-hand.
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