Uniformity Prada won't let fashion favourite go to dark side

With wars raging around the world, crackdowns at US borders and military pomp in Beijing, uniform is everywhere right now. It is, perhaps, not the obvious choice for a fun fashion trend, you might think.

- Jess Cartner-Morley

But Miuccia Prada has always loved uniform, and she refuses to cede her favourite fashion territory to the dark side. “I am always trying to build a new kind of elegance,” she said after the Prada show, a collaboration with her co-designer Raf Simons. “In a uniform you are protected, you are neutral, it allows you to think.”

For women, uniforms offer “authority and agency,” she said. “A woman can feel amazing and chic and luxurious in a uniform, just as much as in a dress.”