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Trump and AI help inspire a Prada collection for challenging times

‘The world has become conservative,’ says designer Miuccia Prada as Milan men’s show tries to resist the algorithm

Speaking backstage at her show on the opening weekend of men’s fashion week in Milan, the 75-year-old designer, who grew up a communist and believed, like many of her generation, that change would come not through capitalism but through revolution, could only laugh. Office-friendly slacks in dark grey were paired with faux-fur tabards (Prada is fur-free), “modern man meets primal”, Simons said. As someone who prefers to communicate through her clothes, she has consistently tried to address and react to the times, all while reconciling her artistic, leftist roots with what others might find frivolous: high fashion.

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