Easiness is a concept that over the past few seasons the two designers have referenced a lot and this collection felt immediate, fresh, certainly uncomplicated, but still charming, and appealing. […] [Prada and Simons] seem very focused on finding out what’s relevant today, without renouncing creativity and edginess.
WWD
The event format not only demonstrated the company’s financial muscle — producing two shows and two collections is certainly no small, or inexpensive, feat — but also highlighted Prada’s understanding of the importance of luxury brands breaking new boundaries to engage with a worldwide community.[…]
WWD
And, as has been the case since Mrs. Prada and Mr. Simons joined forces in one of those it-could-be-great but it-could-be-a-disaster partnerships, it was like watching a living conversation unfold: between past and present, one designer and another and — this time — one country and another. That’s one way to couple up.
The New York Times
The collection itself felt especially tuned in. […] Prada never approaches anything straight on, it goes without saying. […] It’s not easy to redefine sexy, as we’ve seen elsewhere this week. […] But today in Milan and Shanghai, Miuccia and Raf nailed it.
Vogue.com
It was a sophisticated take on sexiness […] Prada is broadly on the right track; […] the company’s shares are trading about one third higher than they were pre-pandemic.
Financial Times
This Prada Spring 2022 collection, […], transcends physical borders and the borders of dress. It’s the ultra clever deployment of couture and dress techniques onto functional clothes […]
The Impression
On the large-scale spectaculars, Prada was certainly the most captivating. […] it felt like a mind-expanding displacement peppered with an Escher-esque sense of vertigo.
Business of Fashion
So linking Milan and Shanghai was a powerful gesture. [… ] It is, admittedly, difficult for super brands to change direction. Yet that is why the Prada show was so energizing. Simons and Prada also embraced sexy clothes — a big theme of the New York collections, to the point of near nakedness. And after a year of sweatpants, after little or no physical contact, it was inevitable that clothing would be more revealing. But Prada and Simons did it with great consideration. They stayed high when almost everyone else has gone low. Every gesture in the collection can be traced to Simons or Prada’s aesthetic or personal obsession.
The Cut
It’s hard not to be seduced by the everyday reality created by Simons and Prada. These are the clothes that make the wearer feel both sophisticated and sensual.
Thezoereport.com
Prada has understood the importance of this physical connection, especially when it comes to China, which is still cut off from the rest of the world. Here, it aimed to bring two groups together, on both sides of the world, in what it termed “a modern community.” Colleagues who have not been in the same “room” for years could now see each other mirrored on the big screen — half a world meeting another half — or a giant “zoom” call with China on one side, Italy on the other. The reaction in the rooms? Overwhelmingly positive on both sides.
Jing daily
Listening to women’s comments on this Spring / Summer 2022 collection, this original Prada has not lost any of its power of attraction.
Le Figaro
Insisting on these elements by versioning them in infinite colors and fabrics is something that few can afford without falling into boredom. Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons are two of them. To reaffirm that they are not afraid of redundancy, the co-designers decided to merge the physical format with the face-to-face format.
El Pais
Rigor and imagination, the imagination that is measured by reduction, in that admirable aesthetic short-circuit that is the inviolable sign of Miuccia Prada, together with the radical, strong and minimalist inspiration that have always been Raf’s signature, and the collection Prada woman, spring-summer 2022 takes shape, crosses the continent and becomes a unique, contemporary stage between Milan and Shanghai […]. A project of synthesis between past and present, […], but the look to the future, the capacity and the vital and creative attention of those who know how to see and put together different horizons, the energy that is breathed in this collection are a photograph mighty of the breath of the world today.
Huffington Post
Sensual, couture, essential. A nice change of direction that greatly simplifies what’s been seen in women’s wear created so far by the two creative talents. Fresher, easier, more immediate. And even younger and hipper.
MF FASHION
So strong and modern, these are the dresses of seduction, reinterpreted by the Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons duo. The show imparts a magnetic force, with those micro skirts and their trains, boning, and corset lacing, or hints of a bra on maxi pullovers.
La Stampa