{"id":516573,"date":"2025-06-23T13:51:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T11:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highxtar.com\/?p=516573"},"modified":"2025-06-23T13:51:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T11:51:17","slug":"prada-ss26-and-the-search-for-silence-in-the-age-of-noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highxtar.com\/en\/prada-ss26-and-the-search-for-silence-in-the-age-of-noise\/","title":{"rendered":"Prada SS26 and the search for silence in the age of noise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the accelerated pace of contemporary fashion\u2014where visual excess, conceptual overstimulation, and immediacy of information seem to have become dogmas\u2014Prada’s SS6 show represented an unusual gesture: a deliberate renunciation of noise, a commitment to restraint, to pause, to a certain form of introspection. Far from the deafening noise of imposed narratives, Prada<\/strong><\/a> presented a collection that, rather than announcing, insinuated; rather than defining, suggested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under the title “A Change of Tone,” Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons articulated a proposal that departs from the usual rhetoric of the fashion show. The show, held at the Fondazione Prada Depot, was stripped of artifice: an industrial space left practically pure, bathed in natural light thanks to deliberately uncovered windows, and barely touched by shaggy, flower-shaped rugs. For the first time, the space was not transformed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Silence, calm, balance<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Raf Simons made it clear backstage: the key to this collection is calm. A word that, in the context of luxury and runway fashion, sounds almost provocative. However, far from meaning complacency or neutrality, the calm Prada invokes is a form of aesthetic resistance: in the face of the speed of consumption, in the face of the saturation of symbols and meanings, a fashion that observes, breathes, and slows down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The collection displayed a refined play of contradictions and contrasts. Prada, a staunch defender of shorts as a central element of the modern menswear wardrobe, this time took her minimalism to a deliberate extreme: tiny, body-hugging shorts, often hidden under leather jackets or lightweight trench coats. This economy of fabric on the legs was matched by an unusual generosity in the safari-inspired shirts, which fell to mid-calf and altered the visual balance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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