Milan Fashion week 2018: Kazuyo Sejima's bag for Prada

For the spring / summer season 2019 Prada asked three women architects to reinterpret its iconic nylon for three models of bags. Cini Boeri, Elizabeth Diller and Kazuyo Sejima have designed new and unique pieces inspired by the intrinsic characteristics of the fabric and its position within the brand’s heritage. The products created and presented during the Milan Fashion Week 2018 are part of ‘Prada Invites’, a project that combines the protagonists of various related disciplines to fashion.

‘Prada Invites’ is a project that seeks the unexpected in the union between fashion and architecture, sectors that are on the one hand profoundly different, on the other similar. Fashion runs, architecture walks, but both are confronted with functionality in the life of humanity. In this case the work of the three designers also becomes a re-presentation of “gender”: in addition to the profession, the three architects are united by their experience as women.

Prada describes the outcome: “Their creations are profoundly different, but the catalyst remains the same and pervades all their work”. The bags are designed as a feminine accessory. “The result becomes an ideological dialogue that expresses itself through fashion; personal, sincere, real.”