‘I Left So Quickly I Didn’t Have Time to Pack My Things’. Being a rich fashion designer, I always refuse to talk about politics. “You have to think. The actress playing Borat’s daughter thanked Baron Cohen for intervening. Prada and Bertelli have two sons, and in 2018, their eldest, Lorenzo, a retired race-car driver, joined the family firm as director of marketing and communications. Subscribe Now! Already a subscriber? I mean, I knew but—”, “I always try to think about why the idea of fashion can be somehow embarrassing. The company is struggling to catch up with competitors who were quicker to understand the power of e-commerce and social media. To fuel its turnaround, the company is focusing on e-commerce and bringing back its Prada Sport line, the sub-label that pioneered luxury athletic wear in the 1990s. We can try to do less, be more conscious of the environment, but this is so little compared to the reduction of the huge waste in the world … Any critic should be more deeply political than just of the system of fashion. Prada was more practical, acknowledging that there’s a fashion-show arms race. Still, even if there are so many people who love fashion, for some, fashion is something embarrassing. Bertelli said during the unveiling of a handbag production site near Florence that his 30-year-old son Lorenzo … “To make a luxury product, like a handbag, it is not possible,” Bertelli said, while conceding that it could be done for more casual footwear like sneakers. Upper East Side Gallery Quietly Opens as Estate Queries Pour In, Michelin-Star Chinese Chef Shows How to Make Sweet & Sour Pork, Apple and Netflix Discussed Acquiring ‘Bond’ Movie for Streaming, South America’s Posh Summer Spot to Stay Shut on Covid. It’s worth looking at, mainly because it’s so different—simpler, more offhand—than what she later became famous for. The “Sisters in Law” are running to be judges in a county that hasn’t had seen a Black woman elected since 1994. “It’s not enough to say, ‘We’re democratic, and of course we’re against racism.’ It’s not enough. Wanting to do it is the important thing.”. I do politics in all different ways, through action but never as a declaration.”, I told her, “One of the things I’ve loved in doing this project is to hear how passionate designers are. But I am more cynical in trying to understand the difficulties of something like that.”, So how will change come? “Anyway, we are ready for a new adventure.”. We all felt that the pressure was too much, and we also felt that there was too much stuff, too much everything. She told me that after that first show, people in the company and around her “decided I was not a fashion designer, and that I had to be more of a proper designer.” She tried that for a while and then stopped. Today in Celebrities We Didn’t Expect to Launch a Candle Line, The FDA Has Officially Approved the First Coronavirus Treatment. Politics clearly still anchors her, though she knows that, as a fashion designer, she’s compromised. For those who like classics, there was something deeply disturbing, and for the avant-gardists, it was not avant-garde enough. The late writer Ingrid Sischy once described Miuccia Prada’s approach to design, or to most anything that interests her, as “sparring and talking.” I’ve had conversations with Prada—before her shows in Milan, a very long lunch interview in 2014—and been aware of how open her mind is.