MFW: Prada Fall Winter 2019-20 fashion show. How is possibile that Miuccia makes no mistakes?

The models styled in the perfect Wednesday Addams mood, yesterday took the lead on the catwalk of the Prada fall winter 2019-20 fashion show.

And so, finally Frankenstein has his bride.

In the wake of the last menswear fashion show, Miuccia Prada continued her exploration of Shelley’s canonical invention, this time giving him a bride (literally, on a sheath dress worn by Cara Delevingne) and placing again him at the center of a broader socio-cultural critique of our times, which she feels to be defined by “romanticism and fear”.

First of all, it should be noted that it was a fearless decision by Prada to show a women’s collection that was not a total surprise for her audience. There are many fashion experts for whom the Prada show is like Christmas is for children.

Some people love Prada because they want to be stunned, dazzled, polite, and substantially aesthetically awakened in the sleep of Fashion Month. But these people forget one thing: Miuccia is a serious person and is currently very worried about European conflicts and threats of war. And those kinds of thoughts, as well as creative impulses, certainly do not change in five weeks just because the industry prefers novelty. It is simply not that moment.

And so, instead, we had a Prada collection that continued to place romance in all its aesthetic gestures (lace, flowers, hearts, fairytale hoods and sparkling red shoes) as a way to sweeten and deepen the tropes of utilitarianism. (uniforms, puffer fish, cargo details, trekking boots, backpacks).

So if the combat boots with lace details are not enough to convince the Prada’s orientation towards the gothic, here there are the sweaters and the silk-screened dresses with Frankenstein’s monster and his bride to complete the job.

The most successful looks, in fact, integrated in itself, both a wide-eyed beauty and a cumbersome terror.

So on the catwalk she pulled out a rough and dry wool party dress with a curvy skirt made of shapelier with a huge patch pocket; a black slouched trousers closed at the waist by a vaguely masculine buckle; a military jacket combined with an elegant blue shirt and a black lace tube skirt.

Surely all the true followers of Prada will love this collection because it has been, inside, very, very Prada.

Not because there has been some kind of exploit as we usually expect from her, but because, as she did with man, she chose to show through the woman what are the twin impulses that on the one hand define, while on the other they discourage the person.

I know what really matters and I also love fashion. Such a beautiful and bad love. – Miuccia Prada

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Francesca Montuschi

Trendsetter sin dai tempi dell'asilo (già allora decidevo i miei outfit). Giornalista di moda, sempre alla ricerca di nuove tendenze, ma nostalgica dell'eleganza del passato.