This season, Prada and Simons were preoccupied with the idea of traditional femininity and the woman’s role in the workplace, presenting looser fitting shirts, creased suit trousers and oversized sheath dresses, taking the concept of ‘smart womenswear’ and turning it on its head.
Co-creative directors Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons (formerly of Calvin Klein) interrogated the concept of femininity in Prada’s autumn/winter 2025 collection.
The Italian fashion house is known for its avant-garde take on traditional fashion concepts, with its last spring/summer 2025 collection featuring alien headpieces and hole-embellished bucket hats, offering a disconcerting peep into the future of fashion.
Like many collections this season, Prada presented fur in various forms, evolving from the classic fur coat into a structured suit blazer – perhaps a piece that will be cropping up in offices later this year.
In true Prada fashion, the collection left the audience asking the following questions: What does femininity look like today?
