Prada’s “The Skirt”: A Skirt-Centric Collection at Milan Fashion Week

On September 22, Prada presented its Spring-Summer 2027 womenswear collection at Fondazione Prada in Milan. Co-creative directors Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons eliminated trousers and dresses, centering every one of the 63 runway looks on a skirt. The show opened with a model gripping a full, pleated skirt at an unfinished waist, framing the garment as the primary vehicle for expression.

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The focus on skirts revisits a traveling Prada exhibition staged two decades ago that examined the garment’s role in contemporary wardrobes. In a 2005 “Waist Down” exhibition in Shanghai, Prada highlighted the skirt as a universal piece. An earlier 2006 Charlie Rose interview featured Prada describing the skirt as “like a T-shirt,” a sentiment that has guided her design philosophy. The September 22 runway arrived amid an unrelated Italian controversy over comments by Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani on skirt length, underscoring the collection’s thematic relevance to discussions of women’s autonomy.

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• 63 looks featured, each built around a skirt.

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• Skirt variations included pleated wool, leather-treated cotton, sheer organza, crystal-embellished “jewellery” skirts, and Velcro-fastened designs that could be adjusted on-stage.

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• Accessories ranged from silk sling-back shoes to industrial-style perforated-leather pumps and bright-colored canvas purses.

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Miuccia Prada explained that the skirt serves as a “framework” for ideas, allowing designers to graft diverse concepts onto a single, familiar silhouette. Raf Simons emphasized the garment’s versatility, noting that the skirt can accommodate work attire, sensual looks, or casual wear, depending on the pieces paired with it. Both designers described the skirt as the most flexible item in a woman’s wardrobe, capable of expressing “complexity” without prescribing a single identity.

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By restricting the vocabulary to a single garment, Prada showed how material, length, and styling can radically alter meaning, reinforcing the brand’s narrative that fashion should accommodate contradictory aspects of femininity. The collection’s emphasis on the skirt as a mutable canvas may influence other houses to explore single-piece concepts, while reaffirming Prada’s reputation for intellectual, concept-driven design.

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• “I think you can express complexity,” — Miuccia Prada, co-creative director

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• “Whether you want to go to work, or be sexy, or be relaxed with your kids, you can wear the skirt with whatever you choose,” — Raf Simons, co-creative director

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