PRADA FW25: The Raw Form of Femininity

Prada shows always hold a special place in the fashion calendar. Surprises, references, twists… This season was no different. Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons revisited the concept of femininity for Fall/Winter 2025. Instead of breaking the familiar molds or replacing them with new ones, they shifted those molds—creating gaps in between. And those gaps were just as important as the clothes themselves.

Classic codes of femininity—bows, dresses, jewels—appeared on the runway. But none of them carried their usual meaning. Fur coats, wrapped in plastic, were they being protected or stripped of their value? Skirts with paper-bag waists, were they embracing the body or avoiding it? A tiny bow sitting on the shoulder of a knit, was it about innocence or irony?

What Prada does is never just designing clothes; it builds ideas through garments. Once again, the archive met the present to refresh that conversation. Traces of Fall/Winter 2009 appeared on the runway, but the “strong woman” narrative of 2009 evolved into today’s questions: How has the relationship between femininity and simplicity changed? When luxury is so accessible, what does true elegance even mean?

The setting at Fondazione Prada’s Deposito supported these ideas too. Metal scaffolding and Catherine Martin’s patterned carpets placed rawness and luxury side by side. This physical framework made the collection’s message even clearer: Femininity is no longer a polished whole. It’s layered, contradictory, fragmented—and all the more real because of it.

And yes, Prada continues to celebrate imperfection. Visible seams, intentional wrinkles, and purposeful gaps… In Prada’s world, imperfection is never a flaw, but part of the design itself. This season, that attitude stood front and center: Not wanting to be perfect is the ultimate freedom.

Prada Fall/Winter 2025 doesn’t glorify femininity or reject it. It simply asks: What could it be? And Prada’s only answer, as always: Femininity never fits into one form. It’s in every piece, every detail, every contradiction.