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Prada leaves the dark days of the pandemic behind in her new menswear show
last season’s body-encasing rompers nodded to the infantile and comforting, these were clothes for emerging from slumber and out into the world; that bracing PVC outwear, for example, or the sharp, angular cuts on tailored jackets.Prints were a recurring theme, taking the mundane summer motifs of deckchairs - that utopia of normality in action - and applying them to jumpsuits and shorts, as well as traditional sailor tattoo imagery such as mermaids and anchors painted across shirting. Geometric patterns that called to mind the ‘ugly chic’ motifs of late 90s Prada also featured, a nostalgic dose of purist Prada alongside the new, Raf Simons-infused iteration of the house.
