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The Guardian - UK
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Jess Cartner-Morley in Milan

Prada lets it rip with ‘gestures of error’ at Milan fashion week

A pre-torn Prada pencil skirt at Milan fashion week 2022.
A pre-torn Prada pencil skirt at Milan fashion week 2022. Photograph: Alessandro Garofalo/Reuters

At first, the creases on the Prada blazer looked like an oversight. Perhaps the model had got bored waiting for her turn on the catwalk, sat on the floor and inadvertently crumpled her outfit. A big gaffe at Milan fashion week, where flawless perfection is the aesthetic baseline, but these things happen.

But then there was a pencil skirt that had a front split torn into the fabric. And more creases – which, on closer inspection, proved to be stitched and ironed into place. “Gestures of error”, as Miuccia Prada’s co-designer Raf Simons put it.

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