Fashion Nerds

Miuccia Prada

  • Uniform-inspired tailoring
  • Experimental materials

Miuccia Prada reexamined luxury through practical materials and recognizable clothing forms. Her use of nylon made an industrial synthetic part of a refined fashion vocabulary, while uniforms, restrained tailoring and unexpected colors provided ways to question conventional femininity.

Official website
Portrait of Miuccia Prada
Cory M. Grenier · CC BY-SA 2.0

Five looks to know

Miu Miu — Look 9 — Miuccia Prada, Spring 2022 Ready-to-Wear

Collection selection

Miu Miu — Look 9

Spring 2022 Ready-to-Wear

Representative look from the Spring 2022 Ready-to-Wear collection.

Filippo Fior / Gorunway.com
Miu Miu — Look 1 — Miuccia Prada, Spring 2022 Ready-to-Wear

Collection selection

Miu Miu — Look 1

Spring 2022 Ready-to-Wear

Representative look from the Spring 2022 Ready-to-Wear collection.

Filippo Fior / Gorunway.com
Miu Miu — Look 13 — Miuccia Prada, Spring 2022 Ready-to-Wear

Collection selection

Miu Miu — Look 13

Spring 2022 Ready-to-Wear

Representative look from the Spring 2022 Ready-to-Wear collection.

Filippo Fior / Gorunway.com
Miu Miu — Look 26 — Miuccia Prada, Spring 2022 Ready-to-Wear

Collection selection

Miu Miu — Look 26

Spring 2022 Ready-to-Wear

Representative look from the Spring 2022 Ready-to-Wear collection.

Filippo Fior / Gorunway.com
Miu Miu — Look 39 — Miuccia Prada, Spring 2022 Ready-to-Wear

Collection selection

Miu Miu — Look 39

Spring 2022 Ready-to-Wear

Representative look from the Spring 2022 Ready-to-Wear collection.

Filippo Fior / Gorunway.com

Collections & archive pieces

4 collections represented · 4 pieces

fall/winter 1994–95

1 piece

fall/winter 1995–96

1 piece

spring/summer 1996

1 piece

Spring/summer 2022 ready-to-wear

1 piece

About Miuccia Prada

The museum’s examples show how a coat, a belted dress and a coordinated suit could each recast familiar wardrobe expectations.