Prada Cruises to New York
Miuccia Prada will show her cruise 2019 collection in New York on May 4, but is keeping details about the location under wraps.
Prada’s first fashion show dedicated to the resort season was held in Milan last May. It was also the first time a show was staged at the Fondazione Prada Osservatorio, an exhibition space dedicated to contemporary art and visual arts located in the shopping arcade Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II.
Alessandro Michele at Gucci will be traveling to Arles for his next cruise show, to be held in Arles on May 30, while Nicolas Ghesquière has chosen a holiday destination for Louis Vuitton’s next cruise show: the French Riviera. Vuitton has set May 28 as the date for its next itinerant fashion spectacle, but the exact location will be revealed at a later date. — LUISA ZARGANI short movie he produced for his Laboratorio workshop. — L.Z. fluffy fur bomber jackets emblazoned on the back with the brand’s flirting eye motif. Several of the models wore miniskirts that, seen from below, probably revealed a little more than intended.
Lorini said it was the first time the company has staged an event open to the public during Milan Fashion Week.
“We come from the digital, from the cloud. We wanted to come inside the real world, so the event follows this idea of the fashion coming down to the people,” he explained. “We decided not to have professional models but instead to have 40 girls from Milan to enhance our bond with the city.”
The label, which opened its first store in Milan last year, plans to expand its network of flagships. “Right now, we have three, but there are going to be 40 to 45 in the next three to four years,” the executive said. Next up on the list are Beijing and Shanghai. — JOELLE DIEDRICH