Miuccia Prada, currently American Vogue’s pioneering septuagenarian cover girl, was standing backstage after the Prada show, bedecked in emeralds and jade and looking slightly terrified as Emma Watson and hordes of well-wishers and journalists swarmed around her like locusts.
Such is life when you transcend the role of designer and become more like a divining rod that indicates which way the cultural water is flowing.
Toward “history,” she said as her co-creative director, Raf Simons, sipped Prosecco beside her.
Or to be specific, toward the way history teaches us about where we are going.
Besides, fashion can bring the point to life as well as any lecture.
Persons:
Miuccia Prada, Prada, Emma Watson, ”, Raf Simons, sipped, Simons, ” It’s, “ Oppenheimer
Locations:
Milan, Russia, Ukraine