Miuccia Prada - Designer, Co-Creative Director of Prada & Creative Director of Miu Miu

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Prada's New Label

29 September 2010

MIUCCIA PRADA is introducing new "country of origin" labels to her designs - taking into account where exactly the garment has been manufactured and from where it has been inspired.
"It's taking away the hypocrisy," explains Prada of the idea which will work to recognise that although 85 per cent of the brand's goods are made in Italian factories, tapping into international artisans is not something to be ashamed of. So, a dress featuring Chikan embroidery, specific to Muslim India, will be labelled "Prada Milano, Made in India".
"It's something I have been thinking about for a long time and there are many different aspects. 'Made in Italy' - who cares? It's not a brand strength if you have to defend your work. Mine is a political statement and it comes from a personal appreciation of originality. You have to embrace the world if you want to live in it now," she tells the International Herald Tribune.
The first results can be seen in the following projects: "PRADA Made in Scotland", a collection of tartan wool kilts from the original workshops that specialise in centuries-old manufacturing and weave techniques; "PRADA Made in India", a collection of entirely handmade garments from the workshops that specialise in the aforementioned Chikan; "PRADA Made in Japan", a collection of jeans produced by Dova denim manufacturer; and "PRADA Made in Peru", a collection of alpaca wool knitwear using artisanal techniques.
Prada's new move takes the opposite approach to a new law designed to set exact guidelines as to what "Made in Italy" constitutes - currently the entire garment or just part of it.

*Vogue.co.uk

 

[Chanelcouture09]

LOVE S/S 12' Issue #7

There is also a portrait of Miuccia and an accompanying article, in Katie's editors letter she said her shoot with Miuccia inspired most of the issue.




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Love her

The Prada line-up. “My stores tell me women don’t buy so many jackets these days. They buy dresses instead.” So she designed a collection based on jackets, without a single dress. Go figure.
Jess Cartner-Morley

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[jmrmartinho]

she looked so hot in this show final, i was like this is Miucia? wow...
and that dresses and jackets quote is epic

 

[mackos]

She was so lovely at the finale, especially with the little stumble moment.

And that jackets-dresses thing is just so her

 

[Thefrenchy]

Miuccia Prada @ "Miuccia Prada And Elsa Schiapparelli: Impossible Conversations" opening exhibition during Milan Womenswear Fashion Week- February 24, 2012

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Garage Magazine cocktail

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[mackos]

Miu Miu F/W 12.13 Finale


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[DD.-]

Forbes Magazine ranked her #139 in their World's Billonaires list, with $6.8 billions. B)
See the full list here

 

[Machinegumm]

Damn, get that money, gurl!

 

[Chanelcouture09]

Schiaparelli and Prada : On Fashion (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
by Harold Koda & Andrew Bolton

Although separated by time, Miuccia Prada and Elsa Schiaparelli - both Italian, both feminists - share striking affinities in terms of their design strategies and fashion manifestoes. Presented as an intimate "conversation", "Schiaparelli and Prada" aims to tease out formal and conceptual similarities between the two designers. Striking photographs and insightful texts will illustrate the parallels between the two, including their preferences for interesting textiles and prints, eccentric colour palettes, and a bold and playful approach to styling and accessories. Schiaparelli, in the 1920s through the 50s, and Prada, from the late 1980s to today, exploited the narrative possibilities of prints, sought out unconventional textiles, played with ideas of good and bad taste, and manipulated scale for surrealistic outcomes. Contemporary art plays a major role in the work of these inventive women - Schiaparelli in her famous collaborations with Dali and Cocteau, and Prada via her Fondazione Prada. Blending the historic with the contemporary, new technologies and unconventional modes of presentation will bring the masterworks of both designers together into a grand conversation between the most important women fashion designers to ever emerge from Italy.

*Amazon.co.uk

 

[Chanelcouture09]

^One thing I missed, was the release date, 31st of May 2012.

 

[ogepma]

She is also the 79th most powerful woman according to forbes

 

[FelipeV]

Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations
Book Preview.

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Miuccia Prada backstage, 1997
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[Chanelcouture09]

I still don't get why they combined Miuccia with Elsa... An exhibit on Miuccia would of been far more idealistic.

 

[Thefrenchy]

^Agree

 

[JuiceMajor]

The book does look good. Will definately get a copy.

 

[Gábor]

Where can I find pictures of her older collections? (pre-2000)

 

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^ I got this.. not pictures though

 

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D la Repubblica #789



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