What Raf And Miuccia’s First Collection Means For Prada Menswear
When Miuccia Prada, the creative director of her eponymous fashion empire, announced earlier this year that she would henceforth be sharing design duties with Belgian designer Raf Simons – with the pair’s first joint collection to be shown this September – the fashion industry was abuzz. Prada, after all, is one of the most powerful non-group-owned brands in the world, with an annual turnover of around £3 billion, and much of the label’s continued success in the past few decades has been apportioned to the unique vision of Mrs Prada and Mrs Prada alone. And though Simons, with a pedigree that includes stints at Dior womenswear and more recently Calvin Klein 205w39nyc, has made a name for himself with his unique ability to blend structured minimalism with a sense of memory and emotion, there was nonetheless much chatter about how the joint venture may play. Read more at GQ.
