The Fall/Winter 2025 Prada show, designed by Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons, questions the definition of femininity.

While messy bedhead hair, paired with altered proportions and edgy combinations, signals the answer, it also highlights the multifaceted identity of femininity (embodying all the grit and the glam).

The collection illustrates how beauty and femininity are in continual flux. Since ever-changing and shifting, the garments themselves adopt a similar rhythm—flowing around the body, disconnected from their original purpose and meaning. By adopting different meanings as they move, pieces are recontextualised, challenging traditional perceptions. 

Dresses—the emblem of femininity—are transformed through their form and placement on bare-faced models. The use of unconventional materials recalibrates looks, and contrast is, of course, celebrated. The clashing elements harmoniously reveal the archetype of the contemporary Prada woman—one who is glamorously raw.  

Exposed seams and hems are intentionally juxtaposed against the opulence of jewels, handbags, and bows. This dichotomy continues into the runway design, featuring industrial metal scaffolding and lush carpets. In the Prada universe, the beauty of contrast is clearly embraced. Here, the essence of femininity is revealed in its dishevelled and multifaceted form, where the raw and the refined collide to unveil an evolving vision of what it means to be feminine today.