One year after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Prada revisits alternative realities with new context.

Co-creative directors <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/raf-simons-shuts-down-namesake-brand" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Raf Simons</a> and <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/best-prada-fashion-looks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Miuccia Prada</a>, both revolutionaries in their own rights, have once again defied conventions and redefined the beautiful. The <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion-week/every-look-prada-spring-summer-2023-runway-photos-mfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Prada</a> brand has long been &ldquo;ugly chic,&rdquo; sophisticated with an unusual flare. Playing with paradoxes, this season was no different.
One year ago today, <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion-week/every-look-prada-spring-summer-2022-shanghai-milan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Prada</a> showed their&nbsp;Fall/Winter 2022&nbsp;collection just as news surfaced of Russia invading <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/politics-culture/cher-invites-ukraine-refugees-to-stay-at-her-homes-russian-invasion-twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ukraine</a>. In light of so much uncertainty, where did fashion stand? Did it even matter? Prada&rsquo;s Fall/Winter 2023 collection is a nod to unsung heroes&mdash; the troops and nurses&mdash;who put fashion into new context. Elevating the everyday, Simons and Prada reinvented the uniform to honor the extraordinary courage of those who wear them.&nbsp;
Prada's previous collection was about reality and irreality, a sequence of alternative, and at times, disharmonious, perspectives. Perhaps a metaphor both for the world of fashion versus current events, as well as their separate visions of the brand, <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion-week/raf-simons-collection-fall-winter-2022-photo-fashion-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Simons</a> and <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/happy-birthday-miuccia-prada" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Prada</a> revisited the concept of alternative realities, but this time, mindful of pressing issues.&nbsp;
The <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/italian-summer-style-movies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Italian</a> label aptly showed in <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion-week/milan-fashion-week-fall-winter-2022-street-style" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Milan</a> inside a cavernous industrial building. Gloomy concrete floors juxtaposed coral posts crowned with vegetation. The imperfect and sporadic quality of life was evidenced in cloth shaped every which way. Irregular but intentional twists and rifts of familiar silhouettes upended the classical.
Although certain key elements persisted throughout&mdash;trapezoidal bags, three-dimensional accents, and mannish shoulders&mdash;the collection&rsquo;s beauty was in its incongruity and variation, both in color palette and in silhouette. Seemingly dissonant combinations such as pale peachy pink, army green, and teal broke from the predominating neutrals. Oversized <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/how-to-style-blazers-celebrity-kaia-gerber-hailey-bieber" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blazers</a> lay over top entirely unbuttoned dress shirts, exposing a vertical line down the torso, making looks appear ready for <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/men/best-mens-sneakers-shopping-footwear-nike-jordans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fall</a> whilst still mused by <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/accessory-trends-spring-summer-2023-runways-bags-jewelry-shoes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spring</a>.
Although white skirts were a constant, they too varied substantially: some were crafted of an immobile <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/puffer-coats-how-to-style" target="_blank" rel="noopener">puffer</a> material while others had flowing trains, some were barren whilst others featured ample embroidery of natural motifs. This imagery&mdash;particularly the rosettes&mdash;are an updated thread line from Prada&rsquo;s previous collection and were featured mostly on pointed, <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/beauty/18-geometric-eye-looks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">geometric</a> shoes with extending wings.

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