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Prada Fall/Winter 2025: Redefining Femininity in a New Era
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Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons have named Prada’s Fall/Winter 2025 collection “Raw Glamour”, portraying a raw, unfiltered, and intimate beauty that challenges conventional notions of femininity.
Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons have named Prada’s Fall/Winter 2025 collection “Raw Glamour”, portraying a raw, unfiltered, and intimate beauty that challenges conventional notions of femininity.
What Does Femininity Mean Today?
Prada’s Fall/Winter 2025 show was not designed to answer this question. Instead, Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons posed it as an open-ended dialogue, allowing the fashion audience to reflect on an ever-evolving concept. In an era where gender norms and beauty ideals are constantly being dismantled and redefined, Prada once again disrupts convention, offering interrogation rather than conclusion.
This challenge to traditional femininity was immediately apparent in the show’s setting. The runway, built across multiple levels and surrounded by scaffolding, contrasted starkly with plush Art Nouveau-patterned carpets. Models walked with undone hair, appearing as if they had hurriedly dressed. The contrast between what is considered “perfect beauty” and what is not was central to the narrative.
For centuries, the pursuit of perfection—flawless faces and sculpted bodies—has consumed humanity. But in a time when such ideals can be easily purchased through costly aesthetic procedures or enhanced with social media filters, Prada provocatively turns to something raw, unpolished, and real.
Deconstructing Beauty: A New Approach to Glamour
Set to an electrifying techno beat, the show opened with oversized black dresses that fell loosely to the knees. These were followed by plush faux fur coats worn without pants and oversized knits with exaggerated collars and large buttons.
Prada and Simons stripped away every notion of conventionally “perfect” femininity, altering proportions and removing revealing cuts until the dresses resembled ’60s Mod-style shifts. These new black dresses were cut from dark, structured fabrics, featuring dropped hems, oversized buttons, and delicate fabric bows placed in unexpected positions.
“Femininity in fashion often evokes sculptural, surreal silhouettes,” Raf Simons explained. To counter this, the designers rejected traditional body-enhancing structures, allowing silhouettes to flow freely instead of emphasizing curves. The runway was filled with dresses devoid of waist definition—an outright rejection of the hourglass shape.
Soft, slinky fabrics were replaced with rigid, structured materials. Deliberately exposed seams and layered creases reinforced the theme of raw, unfinished beauty. “When you think of feminine archetypes, there are so many physical restrictions. Here, there is freedom,” Simons added.
This ethos manifested in floral-print dresses that were anything but delicate, oversized blazers with exaggerated shoulders, and deep, plunging backlines designed purely for the wearer’s own pleasure rather than external validation.
Miuccia Prada has long had a knack for transforming what was once deemed unattractive into something unexpectedly beautiful. In this collection, that skill was on full display. Some dresses looked like rumpled nightgowns, while pajama sets appeared carelessly thrown together, as if just pulled from a cramped wardrobe. Yet, the result was undeniably luxurious. A sheer trench coat lined with fur and belted blazers brought an element of refinement to the undone aesthetic.
Risk-Taking in an Age of Luxury and Minimalism
In an era fixated on quiet luxury and sleek minimalism, Prada dares to do the opposite. For the designers, liberation comes with taking risks. Many designs appeared spontaneous, almost primitive, with silhouettes that rarely adhered to conventional tailoring principles.
Revisiting ideas from their recent menswear show, Prada and Simons transformed pajamas and boxer shorts into voluminous dresses that barely cinched at the waist. Outerwear remained the cornerstone of the collection—some jackets featured sharp lapels and smooth shearling panels, while others were crafted from heavy gray wool and flannel with exaggerated folds.
At a time when Milan’s runways were filled with elegant, figure-hugging long coats, Prada instead presented boxy, androgynous outerwear, styled with nothing but pointed-toe heels.
Accessories: A New Interpretation of Femininity
Beyond refined pointed heels, Prada Fall/Winter 2025 featured a selection of unconventional footwear: worn-in sneakers, loafers, pointed pumps with dainty bows, and thick leather boots with open toes. Medium-sized top-handle bags maintained their position as the season’s reigning accessory.
The collection also blurred the lines between fashion and jewelry, transforming garments into statement pieces. Necklines were adorned with jeweled collars, tube tops were punctuated with singular gemstone brooches, and Art Deco-inspired pendants—featuring pearls and floral motifs—dangled dramatically from sweater necklines. The oversized gray coat closing the show was finished with pearl buttons, reminiscent of 1950s brooch clasps.
The Prada Woman: A Maturation of Femininity
In Prada’s world, femininity is something that takes time to ripen—it is never obvious or easily defined. Prada Fall/Winter 2025 presents a vision of femininity that has evolved beyond youthful seduction.
The collection rejects simplistic interpretations of beauty—there is no overt sex appeal, no polished glamour. Instead, Prada explores elegance within chaos, dismantling structure while carefully studying grace. Fabrics unravel, layers remain unaligned, and silhouettes defy precision, favoring something more instinctual and natural.
This is Prada’s take on femininity for the new era: imperfect, free, and powerfully self-possessed.
