⭕️ Prada — 2023 — Spring Summer Menswear Runway Collection

⭕️ The Spring/Summer 2023 Menswear collection by Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons is an expression of curated processes. The practice of design - of fashion - is one of decision-making, curation alongside creation. The tools of this collection are direct, recognizable, archetypal pieces – suits, overcoats, sweaters, shirts, denim, leather. Known garments are reinvented through context. There is always a complexity of thought behind apparently simple results, a process of refinement to uncover the fundamentals of dress.

⭕️ Brought together in unusual combinations, individual garments - often classic in and of themselves - can have a different impact. Inspirations are malleable, elastic - leather shorts and checked patterns can simultaneously evoke memories of childhood, domestication or sophistication.

⭕️ Silhouettes are pulled close to the body, proportions abbreviated. They are evocative of youth, therefore energy and vitality. There is a freshness and lightness to clothes that permit the body to move freely, a consciousness of its form and dynamic, an innate freedom and joy.

⭕️ Reduction results in streamlining: extraneous details are shorn, collars removed on shirts and coats. Trousers draw close, cropped at the ankle or into brief shorts. A sequence of tailored black suits are a logical conclusion to this system of refinement. In stripping away decisively there is a physical and emotional relief - a freshness, a lightness.

⭕️ The show decor conceptualizes intimacy: a representation of a mocked-up house, blown overscale, is executed entirely in raw-edged paper. Reflective of the human and the real - the quotidian and everyday, in material and image, both fashioned into something exceptional - it functions both as a backdrop to the clothes and a protagonist unto itself, another context that challenges our perception.

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