“When working on the men’s collections, I am always interested and very much enjoy investigating the various different ways men and women react to the same idea with total freedom,” Miuccia Prada said ahead of her fall 2016 men’s show.
Proud-looking men and women both paraded in sailor hats, beautifully tailored naval coats and uniformlike suits, collars and hoods detached, askew and dangling.
She collaborated on prints with Christophe Chemin, a little-known French artist whose allegorical drawings — splashed on romantic, oversized white shirt dresses with undulating hems.
The women’s ensembles closely echoed the wayward, windblown allure, sexed up with high heels and patterned tights. There was a suite of suavely draped satin and velvet dresses with Forties airs — that decade’s influence gathering momentum this pre-fall season — all demure except for their open backs.”