
Prada SS21: How was Raf Simons' debut A duet of fragility and eloquence
There were those who, at the announcement of the entry of Raf Simons from Prada as co-creative director, had raised doubts about how two creatives so cerebral and elusive as Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons would find common ground. Today, their work at deux was finally presented with a digital show for the SS21 collection of the brand shot in Fondazione Prada and the pair of designers demonstrated the strength of their common work through a collection with subdued aesthetics but in which the individual touches of the two designers were clearly noticeable.
The sense of a happy but cautious start, the result of a prudence matured in long years spent walking on different paths, is also breathed on the catwalk that, almost by symbolic choice, was walked by models alone at its debut: new faces for new clothes and new identities. With the arrival of Simons, the element of restlessness and anarchy has gone to join the galaxy of senses and overtones concocted by Miuccia Prada over the past thirty years. A kind of optical illusion for which Prada's face is different but looks the same as before: everything has to change, in fact, for things to remain the same.