Prada Resort 2020 New York

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[dodencebt]

Anna is ordering custom versions of Looks 24 to 26 as we speak.

 

[Lola701]

While I think this is still overstyled and it lacks the classic timeless style of Prada, this is maybe the most achieved and strong collection Miuccia showed in seasons.
This time, it feels like her team did more than « go to the archives and mix all the past success ».

This actually feels like someone’s take on Prada. Like if Proenza Schouler and The guy from Marni did a Prada collection together.

It’s very hits/misses. I think the looks with pants are tragic but I like a lot of pieces. The dresses that are referencing the dresses from the resort 2014 collection are cleverly executed.

I particularly love the dress on Mica!
And Miuccia looks good again!

 

[RaisinBoy]

This all is quite frustrating. There is no Prada magic, it feels very flat. I think Miuccia is trying to find a new approach to her work, and this is a testing collection. Better than her cartoon prints, but still.

Also, is it just me or did the set look very empty? There were vacant seats everywhere.

 

[Ruito]

While I think this is still overstyled and it lacks the classic timeless style of Prada, this is maybe the most achieved and strong collection Miuccia showed in seasons.
This time, it feels like her team did more than « go to the archives and mix all the past success ».

This actually feels like someone’s take on Prada. Like if Proenza Schouler and The guy from Marni did a Prada collection together.

It’s very hits/misses. I think the looks with pants are tragic but I like a lot of pieces. The dresses that are referencing the dresses from the resort 2014 collection are cleverly executed.

I particularly love the dress on Mica!
And Miuccia looks good again!

Very good collection indeed! Prada is weird again!

 

[mathiaskatz]

Looks more like a MiuMiu collection but I like it.

 

[bc collector]

Reading MrsP.'s interview on WWD with Bridget Foley today, I was expecting something way more pared down and focused than this. The key-words of the collection seemed to be simplicity and layering: while the latter definitely shows, it does so at the expense of the supposed simplicity these looks should evoke. In short: as so often with Prada recently, the styling is distracting, to say the least.

And one can't escape the suspicion that, when styling is overpowering, it is for lack of compelling ideas in the design area.

 

[dfl-001]

My eyes glazed over through much of this. The shapes are a bit frumpy and then I get obsessed with that rose coat in slide 23.

 

[liberty33r1b]

incredibly boring

 

[dior_couture1245]

Not the worst.

Certainly better than that Frankenstein nightmare last season.

There are some cute looks, especially number 37...it’s nice that these just look like clothes, for the most part. The parka, skirt and shirt look is cute with the t-strap shoe and chunky sock. There’s a section there that feels a bit Loewe-lite and then those pants and safari jacket looks are quite terrible.

All in all tho..doesn’t make a huge impact. Poor Prada.

 

[GivenchyHomme]

Somewhere a granny is smiling.

 

[Rigida]

A step in the right direction,

Very normal and yes, it lacks "Prada magic" but none of Prada collection since Fall 2016 has it

 

[kasper!]

I cannot believe it's 2020 already! I only remember 2006FW, 2007FW with amazing fabric and that banana print collection...!

 

[ghostwriter10549]

Cute collection, I love the shoes, I wanna wear some of them. Its very well styled IMO, maybe thats why Im buying the ideia of the collection, but I think that in two months this is not gonna be interesting for me anymore... In the end a very average collection.

I still dont know how Prada still can afford to do the mid-seasons shows, they should cancel it, just give us the look book and focus in the main season.

 

[Lola701]

Looking back at this collection, I feel like Prada is not really aspirational anymore...
Before, when we though that Miuccia was the head, the masterhead of her vision, we wanted to be that chic lady who was able to wear an alligator coat with a funky shirt and maybe a silly hat. There was that tension that made it cool..

Now, Prada is just clothes with accessories.
It’s interesting how the models carry very serious looking bags.

I don’t know if this woman is still the fantasy of a quirky intellectual or working at an Art Gallery or whatever..

I hate the word but there’s no real sense of cool.

I go back to Chanel but Virginie proposed a vision of a woman doing something, going somewhere...It’s more than the clothes.

Prada doesn’t take us anywhere. They went to NYC to show at their space exactly like they could have done it in Milan. How do you connect the narrative of the collection with the city?

Miuccia is doing those shoes abroad to fit into the expectations of a Megabrand but she is doing it half way.
Indeed, as you said @ghostwriter10549 , a lookbook could have been enough.

 

[dior_couture1245]

She used to do lookbooks for pre-seasons and they were quite nice...nice teasers of what was to come for the catwalk show.

Maybe time to go back to that.

But, yes - Lola, you are right - the cool factor of Prada has completely been obliterated. It’s entirely gone. And what you described as that Miuccia look - the alligator coat, the funky shirt and the silly hat - that ease and that sophistication doesn’t exist here anymore. Nor, will I add, does the luxe factor. Prada has looked very cheap for some time now. This brand used to be able to send out some of the most sumptuous looking clothes throughout the 2000’s.

 

[apple]

I like the collection. It is not the best we have seen from prada of course, but there are some very strong pieces in my opinion. I hope it means she has abandoned the route taken with that monstrous (in every sense) Frankenstein collection.

 

[bonnevie]

What a dreary joke of a collection - from the cheap embroidered discs that leeched onto almost every piece to the tragic footwear.

 

[gazebo]

"Seditious Simplicity" is what she named the collection, so she needed to go EXTREMELY simple to make that point, but apparently she is too intimidated to really go there.
The first few looks are kind of there, but she can't help but being tricky after that, which lessen the statement and impact.