The Prada runway collections always offer an early look at where fashion is headed. Miuccia Prada continues to set the trends first and always seems be a season ahead of everyone else. She has been doing this for decades—now, in partnership with Raf Simons, who joined Prada as a co-creative director in 2020. Their joint vision offers a unique perspective on the fashion house, with Mrs. Prada perpetually looking forward and Simons reinterpreting the archives from his point of view.
The spring/summer 2025 collection held inside the Deposito at Fondazione Prada today in Milan showcased their dual vision of what fashion will look like next year. Elements of futurism were woven throughout the show, as were resurrected pieces from the archives. And rather than a concrete theme, the collection was made up of outfits that felt different from look to look, emphasizing a return to personal style. In a sense, highly individual anti-algorithm fashion. Ahead, more on the Prada spring/summer 2025 collection.
From the Archives
Raf Simons continues to bring his perspective to Prada’s past collections. Many of the pieces on the spring/summer 2025 runway are firmly entrenched in the archives and take inspiration from core house codes, including everything from ladylike silhouettes to classic prints. Others are near replicas of the originals, especially when it comes to the shoes. Leather sandals from S/S 1996, chunky striped heels from F/W 2008, oxford platforms from S/S 2011, and towering cap-toe Mary-Janes from F/W 2012 were all resurrected from the archives in the S/S 2025 collection. If you missed out on buying some iconic Prada pieces from past collections, spring 2025 will be the time to add them to your collection.
