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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Jess Cartner-Morley Milan

Milan fashion week: Prada liberates as Max Mara brings Brontë drama

Birdseye shot of a model walking the runway in a short strapless black dress and black boots
‘We wanted these clothes to be about liberation,’ said Prada’s co-designer, Raf Simons. Photograph: Alessandro Garofalo/Reuters

Backstage after the Prada show, someone asked Miuccia Prada if the four loose black dresses with which it began were a comment on fashion’s obsession with the Little Black Dress.

The designer laughed. “No. We are in a very black moment. This is a very difficult time. It is not my job to be political but, every time you open a newspaper – oh my God! My job is to think about what clothes a woman can wear. About what kind of femininity makes sense in a moment like this.”

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