PRADA

The title of Federico Fellini’s 1980 film, City of Women, was enough to spark a collection rich in materials and textures at Prada. One of fashion’s most celebrated feminists, the Italian designer explored the many facets of femininity by opening the show with a series of corduroy pieces that took her fascination with uniforms and workwear in a fresh and masculine direction. After which, she unleashed all sorts of embellishments on fuzzy cardigans, and angora sweaters and checked jackets. Seashells plucked from the beaches adorned necks, while feathers danced off coats, pencil skirts and on jewel-toned heels. Robert E. McGinnis, the American artist who illustrated movie posters of Barbarella and the James Bond films, sketched a new generation of femme fatales, which Prada duly applied on dresses and skirts.