The collection balances and interweaves two typically very distinct categories, sophisticated tailoring and workwear, treating both sartorial disciplines equally with the same vision and meticulous approach to form and craft. The first four looks – wool trench coats and double-breasted jackets with wide, over-exaggerated shoulders (a tailoring theme that runs throughout the collection) – sit atop pants of shimmering technical fabric that appears like both silk and nylon. The following two looks then mark the revelation that these pants were in fact part of a single piece, a boiler suit or set of coveralls.
Leather trench coats follow, cinched at the waist, then rubberized shirts with matching pants and gloves, then elegantly constructed knitwear with more technical pants. Each ensuing ensemble develops the hybrid theme, blurring the lines of functionality and fanciness with laser focus.
Colors- The colors (of which more than half are black) of the collection are almost entirely solid and devoid of pattern, three pieces appear in the middle of the show with prints that hazily blend natural, human, and industrial imagery.
Prada unifies and infuses the traditionally separate realms and identifiers of labor and leisure, pedestrian and sophisticated. As Simons explains, “The approach is to make all garments equally important. Worn under coats and suits are lightweight material overalls, deux-pieces, referring to the idea of work, movement, activity, and leisure.