Miuccia Prada

MILAN--Two of the Milan fashion world's designing women--Miuccia Prada and Gucci's Frida Giannini--like their men to be, well, masculine--but approached the job for next spring and summer very differently.
Gucci, which showed Monday on the third day of men's Fashion Week, in Milan, was about fine detailing and craftmanship. Prada was nothing if not spare. What they shared was clarity.
Both designers also played with blue denim, which is making a cameo in many collections for next spring and summer.

Like it or not, much about a Prada show feels brave and responsible. Miuccia Prada is singularly open about women. She is wise about their ways of being. A great deal about physical beauty and sexual attractiveness fascinates her, but as an intelligent woman she also readily acknowledges a feeling of repulsion.

Prada Spring 2010 Accessories look something out of a fairytale.  Lightly colored fabrics mixed with see-through crystals make for a perfect match.

Slate-gray skies and chilled-to-the-bone mornings are upon us, and so begins the annual ritual of conjuring a (fashioncentric) wish list for warmer days. Fantasy and reality were on the mind of Miuccia Prada as she designed her spring accessories collection, rendered as pieces efficient and entirely frivolous.