Prada opens Milan Fashion Week with 63 skirts, no trousers
Prada, the Italian fashion house, opened Milan Fashion Week with a collection of 63 looks built entirely around skirts. Every exit featured a skirt. There were no dresses and no trousers. The all-skirt format was reported by The Guardian after the opening show.
The Spring/Summer 2027 collection, the range intended for the spring and summer 2027 selling season, was co-designed by Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons. A look in this context means a complete outfit shown on the runway. The pair have shared design duties at Prada for six years as of September 2026.
Simons said the idea began with Prada. She wanted to focus on skirts, and he suggested pushing that further into a show made only of skirts. That choice removed the two product types that often carry a womenswear presentation, dresses and trousers, and left the designers with one garment to vary 63 times.
Most of the skirts were A-line and knee-length. A-line is a shape that fits at the waist and widens toward the hem, forming the outline of the letter A. Knee-length means the hem finishes at or near the knee. All 63 variations stayed within the skirt category, with most sharing that A-line, knee-length base.
Milan Fashion Week for Spring/Summer 2027 was scheduled for 22 to 28 September 2026, according to the official calendar. The calendar from the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana, the Milan-based body that organises the week, listed Prada as staging a live fashion show at Via Lorenzini, 14 in Milan Camera Moda Calendar. A live listing means an in-person runway show with models and guests, as against a film or private appointment.
The same Milan calendar listed the Pradasphere exhibition as open from 23 September onwards Milano Moda Donna Calendar. The date places the opening one day after the start of fashion week. It gives the public a second Prada site to visit during the week.
What makes this stand out is the restriction. Sixty-three looks is a full runway statement. Keeping every one to skirts narrows the field to length, volume and how each skirt is worn. For viewers, that makes the differences easier to track from first exit to last.
