Milan designers are challenging the notion that a collection should dictate how one dresses, offering instead individual looks that can elevate, transform or simply complement a wardrobe.

Italian fashion house Prada played with distortion for its womenswear Spring-Summer 2025 collection at Milan Fashion Week on Thursday, presenting skirts suspended from belts, glasses with hugely oversized lenses and topless hats.

Carrie Mulligan, Sarah Paulson, and more turned out for Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons’s show. The early critical response to Prada’s Spring 2025 show, held today in Milan, is that it was the most unusual Prada show in some time—in a good way.