Prada offers metallics; ties for Emporio Armani at Milan Fashion Week

MILAN, Sept 19 - 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.

A model presents a creation from the Prada Spring/Summer 2025 collection during Fashion Week in Milan, Italy, September 19, 2024.Reuters

Designers Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons opened the show, called "Infinite Present" with a floral strappy frock followed by a black dress adorned with metallic rings, an embellishment seen on several outfits. Models wore stiff shiny silver skirts, some bearing see-through decorative holes, colorful tights that morphed into trousers and tailored trousers as well as skirts that hung from belts. The latter were prominent throughout the show, also appearing on handbags as a fastening or hanging low on one model's hips.

A model presents a creation from the Prada Spring/Summer 2025 collection during Fashion Week in Milan, Italy, September 19, 2024.Reuters

There were fitted tops, hot pants, knotted blouses and plenty of outerwear including macs and jackets in bright colours. One dark feathered dress was worn with an orange rain jacket. Some models wore sheer skirts over the tight trousers. Accessories included huge sunglasses and topless goggle-like bucket hats that covered faces. Shoes were varied from sandals to cowboy boots as well as plenty of colourful heels, some with stick out flaps on top.

A model presents a creation from the Prada Spring/Summer 2025 collection during Fashion Week in Milan, Italy, September 19, 2024.Reuters

Giorgio Armani offered soft fluid looks at Emporio Armani, the veteran designer's second line. He opened the show, called "Future Perfect", with two models in suits and ties, an accessory that peppered the collection. There were soft jackets, wide trousers, long skirts, light dresses and plenty of outerwear including trench coats and parkas. For the evening, models wore shimmering gowns or white shirts paired with shiny trousers and loose black ties.

A model presents a creation from the Emporio Armani Spring/Summer 2025 collection during Fashion Week in Milan, Italy, September 19, 2024.Reuters

Armani also presented menswear, offering loose trousers and blazers cinched with belts. "The entire collection invites dressing with freedom and irony, quintessentially Armanian in its approach," show notes said. "As always, the narrative is driven by the balance of masculine and feminine."

Designer Giorgio Armani stands next to models during the Emporio Armani Spring/Summer 2025 collection at the Fashion Week in Milan, Italy, September 19, 2024.Reuters

Armani, 90, stuck to beige, grey, sage and pink with bursts of blue and fuchsia. At the end of the show, he greeted the audience with four design collaborators, including his niece Silvana Armani. He will present the latest collection for his main eponymous line in New York next month.