Milan Fashion Week: Prada spring/summer 2027 spotlights the skirt, the brand’s ‘obsession’

If there’s a garment that has come to define Prada – both the brand and the personal style of designer Miuccia Prada – it has to be the skirt. Back in 2005, the brand held a blockbuster exhibition at the Peace Hotel in Shanghai. Named “Waist Down”, the show was a celebration of the skirt, a closet staple that was also the centrepiece of the label’s spring/summer 2027 collection, unveiled on Tuesday at Milan Fashion Week. In the show notes, Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons, who co-design Prada,...