Through garments, accessories, and works of art, Prada recounts its story once again in Shanghai, at the Start Museum, a former railway station transformed into a contemporary art gallery in the West Bund, the city’s cultural district, along the Huangpu River.

Nine years after the first edition of the exhibition, Pradasphere, staged in May 2014 at Harrods in London and then arriving in Hong Kong in November of the same year, the Milanese fashion house this time chooses the most populous city in China, which feels closely linked.

The exhibition, titled Pradasphere II – “Storie dal Magazzino Prada, scelte da Miuccia Prada e Raf Simons” (“Stories from the Prada Warehouse, selected by Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons”), chronicles the history of the fashion house in chronological order. It takes the form of a warehouse that extends along a seemingly endless corridor, bordered by metallic shelves with panels of pink and green Prada velvet, on which various archival looks selected and curated by Raf Simons, the current co-creative director, stand out.