“With an assist from Hollywood director Nicolas Winding Refn, Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons showed a collection for the Be Real generation, giving fashion the creative jolt it needed this fall season.”
WWD
“Picking up on the craft paper of the set, they used paper for dresses whose color and print didn’t quite meet the edges. These were the most thought-provoking pieces in the collection.”
Vogue.com
“Still, Miuccia’s intellectual play on women and how they’re perceived through fashion is a gift, and it’s nice to see it still persevering with a male co-creative director at the helm.”
W magazine
“To view a Prada collection by Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons is always one of fruitful anticipation. Today was no exception. [….] By deconstructing the traditional notions of day and eveningwear, and infusing a modern intimacy, Raf Simons and Miuccia Prada are creating a new wardrobe for our modern lives.”
The Impression
“[….] beautiful papery silks printed with giant flowers and then torn upward at the hem (like the paper walls), to reveal the black slip beneath. In their imperfections lay their power.”
NY Times
“Simple beauty and simply very beautiful.”
MF Fashion
“The designers do not disappoint and provide an instant response with the very first look, a men’s jacket and grey shirt/pant suit worn effortlessly by the clean-faced model with short hair.”
Corriere della Sera
“But while, for anyone else, the concept of crude would lead to sad, meagre fashion, in the hands of Simons and Prada it becomes an ode to creativity. […] Their discourse works, in part because every single garment on the catwalk is real and wearable.”
La Repubblica
“Calling it conceptual fashion does not properly convey the idea. The Prada collection […] is something more than that, a statement of intent, resistance and protest, an ‘opting out’. […] clothes that are magnificent and disorderly, impeccable and imperfect […]”
La Stampa
“[…] Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons have assembled their most beautiful tandem Prada collection yet.”
Il Giornale