Touch OF CRUDE
Vogue Singapore|April 2023
Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons presented a romantic exploration of the clothes we wear, subverting imperfection into decoration for Prada's spring/summer 2023 womenswear collection.
JASMINE ASHVINKUMAR
Touch OF CRUDE

The banality of everyday life has long been a subject of discourse, now more so than ever, in fashion. While designers have traditionally sought to elevate the ordinary into something extraordinary, Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons, the co-creative directors of Prada, offered a much more nuanced proposition for the spring/summer 2023 womenswear season—an honest and sensual exploration of the relationship between reality, life, humanity and clothing, and the inherent beauty of it all.

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