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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Chloe Mac Donnell

‘Youth is the future’: gen Z should be celebrated, says Prada

Models walking down a runway descending from a white hut
Models wearing Prada creations during the brand’s spring/summer 2025 show at Milan fashion week. Photograph: Rossella Papetti/EPA

They have been been ridiculed as snowflakes and “too woke” by some, but Prada’s co-creative designers think gen Z are a generation to be celebrated.

Speaking backstage after their latest menswear show, which took place on Sunday afternoon at the Prada Foundation in Milan, Miuccia Prada said: “Youth is the future. It is hope. We wanted to do something that would express youthful optimism because the times are so bad.”

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