"Clinging to the edges of the space were vestiges of a life lived: fireplaces, lintels, wainscoting and boiserie hanging in mid-air, as if half-a-dozen bourgeoise apartments had been blasted out. We sat within the void they created, and waited. It raised plenty of ideas around what Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons were going to show for their Autumn/Winter 2026 Prada menswear show - ideas of sifting through layers of history, grasping at details, but decontextualising and recontextualising them, to create something boldly new."
"That's in retrospect, of course, having seen clothes that seemed to shift between eras, reminders and remainders of the past caught against a body in motion - a hat pressed to a shoulder, cuffs sliding out of sleeves, a jewelled cufflink displaced to an ear - in a pin-thin silhouette that felt dynamically new. In actual fact, there was plenty of antecedent to its shape - the lean lines of the 1790s, the attenuated fin de siècle shapes of Egon Schiele in the 1910s."
The Deposito of the Fondazione Prada was built up then stripped back, leaving fireplaces, lintels, wainscoting and boiserie suspended as fragments of bourgeois apartments. Models moved inside the void among those architectural remnants. Clothes shifted between eras, pairing 1790s lean lines, Egon Schiele's attenuated fin de siècle shapes and 1930s austerity within a pin-thin silhouette punctuated by displaced details — a hat pressed to a shoulder, cuffs sliding, a jewelled cufflink worn at the ear. The collection probed how to retain, reinterpret and recombine elements from the past to imagine beauty, elegance and meaning amid contemporary upheaval.
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