In the end, fabric is fabric

Matthew Callahan writes an ode to Miuccia Prada

‘In the end, fabric is fabric. What is new is the way you treat it.’—Miuccia Prada

Her sartorial approach gives way to new treatments but always seeks to maintain a critical dialogue of the past. Demonstrating an axiomatic case-study approach to fashion, Miuccia’s techniques often embroil sub-textural ideas of modernity with clear expressions of past spaces. Both aggressive and whimsical, her silhouettes act in unison to emote an artifice of sexuality imbricated with wit and humor. The untrammeled sorceress of Milan, Miuccia Prada’s career has re-purposed and shaped not only the clothes we wear, but our consciousness as the wearers.

Matthew Callahan is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst where he studied journalism and philosophy. An avid blogger and fashion journalist, his contributions can be read in U.S. Vogue and Novembre-Switzerland.