Italian fashion house Prada played with distortion for its womenswear Spring-Summer 2025 collection at Milan Fashion Week on Thursday, presenting skirts suspended from belts, glasses with hugely oversized lenses and topless hats.
Designers Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons opened the show, called "Infinite Present" with a floral strappy frock followed by a black dress adorned with metallic rings, an embellishment seen on several outfits.
Models wore stiff shiny silver skirts, some bearing see-through decorative holes, colourful tights that morphed into trousers and tailored trousers as well as skirts that hung from belts.
The latter were prominent throughout the show, also appearing on handbags as a fastening or hanging low on one model's hips.
There were fitted tops, hot pants, knotted blouses and plenty of outerwear including macs and jackets in bright colours. One dark feathered dress was worn with an orange rain jacket. Some models wore sheer skirts over the tight trousers.
Accessories included huge sunglasses and topless goggle-like bucket hats that covered faces.
Shoes were varied from sandals to cowboy boots as well as plenty of colourful heels, some with stick out flaps on top.
On Wednesday evening, fashion house Roberto Cavalli looked to the Sicilian coast for its womenswear show, the first since the death of its founding designer.
Creative director Fausto Puglisi called the line "Views from Zancle", referring to the ancient name of his hometown of Messina in northeastern Sicily.
He opened the show with ivory and ecru outfits - asymmetric frocks, loose trousers and jackets, worn with belts reminiscent of fishermen's ropes, as well as dresses and skirts that looked like fishing nets. Prints of the sea adorned mainly blue designs while other creations bore depictions of golden sunsets.
Puglisi closed the show with seven archive pieces, which included feathered zebra print gowns, as an homage to founding designer Roberto Cavalli, who died in April, aged 83.
Milan Fashion Week runs until September 23. —Reuters
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