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Milan Fashion Week: Prada projects youthful optimism, not escapism, in a turbulent world
Read full article: Milan Fashion Week: Prada projects youthful optimism, not escapism, in a turbulent worldMilan designers have expressed their concern over the global turbulence through their collections without making overt statements.
Prada focuses generational transition on artisans, expanding production and workforce in Italy
Read full article: Prada focuses generational transition on artisans, expanding production and workforce in ItalyThe Prada Group is expanding its production footprint in Italy, including dozens of new jobs at its knitwear factory in Umbria, leaning into “Made in Italy” as integral to the brand’s ethos.
Prada reconnects with the seasons for its 2024-25 fall-winter menswear collection
Read full article: Prada reconnects with the seasons for its 2024-25 fall-winter menswear collectionThe new Prada menswear collection for next fall and winter unveiled on the third day of Milan Fashion Week menswear previews has marked the return of the seasons as a point of renewal of the spirit.
Dog alerts family of house fire near Lake Nona
Read full article: Dog alerts family of house fire near Lake NonaORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Everything inside a home near Lake Nona is destroyed after a fire broke out in the kitchen on Thursday. Firefighters with Orange County Fire Rescue said things could have been worse if it wasn’t for a four-legged hero, Prada. The one-year-old poodle is credited for alerting her parents through a security camera, while they were at work. Gonzalez said the motion alert on their indoor Ring camera went off again 30 minutes later. But her life, that’s something you can’t replace,” Gonzalez said.
Gucci, Gus Van Sant challenge fashion cycle with film collab
Read full article: Gucci, Gus Van Sant challenge fashion cycle with film collabGucci creative director Alessandro Michele teamed up with film director Gus Van Sant to create a seven-part mini-series revealing Guccis latest collection, dubbed Ouverture. Film and fashion have a long relationship, and Gucci is not the first fashion house to team up with a filmmaker, even during the pandemic. Van Sant traveled to Rome, where he filmed part of “My Private Idaho” 30 years ago, to shoot on location. “There is a cinematic fusing with commerce,’’ Van Sant said. “The combination of cinema with exposing fashion ideas has a lot of potential, as cinema starts to get sucked into the computer screen,’’ Van Sant said.
Prada-Simons dialogue launches in virtual Milan preview
Read full article: Prada-Simons dialogue launches in virtual Milan previewA model wears a creation as part of the Max Mara 2021 women's spring-summer ready-to-wear collection during the Milan's fashion week in Milan, Italy, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020. The most anticipated event of the week was Prada’s virtual unveiling of the Miuccia Prada-Raf Simons collaboration announced in February. The designers joined the virtual audience for a dialogue after the presentation, responding to questions that had been submitted in advance. In a bid for democracy in luxury fashion, anyone can access the same preview experience as fashion insiders on Prada’s YouTube channel. ____MAX MARA’S RENAISSANCEMax Mara gave Milan Fashion Week its physical bearings, with a runway show around the porticoed courtyard of the Brera Painting Gallery, safe from threatening skies.