Nature takes office-chic by storm at Prada Apocalypse in a suit

Let Prada handle transforming divisive shades like acid green and fluorescent orange into mainstream colors, bringing back skinny jeans and turtlenecks into fashion. This January, in the pulsating heart of Fondazione Prada, the creative direction of Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons took a nostalgic turn, following the footsteps of the past decade's collections, bringing two worlds to the runway: nature and the computer. A room divided into cubicles with electric blue cardboard walls, the setting of Menswear FW24 evoked the impersonal spaces of old-fashioned offices, before open spaces and remote work. Beneath the soles of the shoes, covered with a layer of recycled Perspex, one could catch a glimpse of the typical flooring of a forest landscape, complete with moss and a small spring. The juxtaposition between the sterile office style and the irregularity of pebbles is a typical code of the Prada apocalyptic-artistic imaginary, but this time it seems to have been taken to the extreme. Are we facing an employee dreaming of freedom, or what we will see before the end of the world?

On one hand, the collection seemed like an ironic commentary on the times we are living in, reflecting a world trapped between the rigor of work and the search for leisure in nature by humans. On the other hand, the artistic duo Prada brought a premonition to the runway. How much time do we have before the Earth turns against us, and we find ourselves in deep water? For the guests of the fashion show, including the star of the maison's new campaign Troye Sivan, the actor from the reboot of Mean Girls, Christopher Briney, Jake Gyllenhaal, James McAvoy, Mamhood, and Louis Patridge, the focus was undoubtedly on the former - as their days don't exactly adhere to those of commuters stuck in a 9-to-5.