It was roughly 2023 when Miuccia Prada first started noticeably casting famous faces in her runway shows. For Fall/Winter 2023, Mia Goth opened the show, while Emma Corrin closed, and Ethel Cain showed up somewhere in the middle. Since, it's been a regular occurrence that celebrities would appear on the runway. We've seen Troye Sivan in a line up, Gigi Hadid, Hillary Swank, Willem Dafoe, Laura Harrier and Sarah Paulson, Sandra Huller, Emily Ratajkowski, Richard E. Grant and many more.
Each season, Mrs. Prada carefully selects these celebrities to partake in the shows. It never feels overhyped or overly publicized, as though it's not firmly believed that Prada's designs can stand on their own—because it emphatically is—rather, Mrs. Prada's knack, in clothing and in her larger cultural impact, is tapping into what makes for an interesting collection of people to represent her interesting ideas.
This season, for Fall/Winter 2026, Mrs. Prada continued with this theme, casting actors Chloé Sevigny, Diana Silvers, modelling greats Gemma Ward, and Kristen McMenamy in the lineup, with none other than Gillian Anderson closing. Sevigny was the first celebrity exit we noticed, in a shearling-trimmed leather blazer with a matching a-line mini dress, hair scraped back in a 90s style zig zag headband.
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Silvers was next, in a cotton skirt and top layered with a fur-lined raincoat and little woolen hat. The final three all wore variations on the same silhouette: a half-translucent pinafore dress with gold and silver embroidery at the chest and torso.
Part of Miuccia Prada's design philosophy has always been to design for how women truly exist within the world, nothing was more clear for her Prada FW26 show in Milan this season with Raf Simons, whose clever decision to peel off the layers of each outfit with each exit left models looking both unusually disheveled (for a runway show) and astutely real.
At Miu Miu, Mrs. Prada explores the same ideas within a different context. Silhouettes are repeated, like a woman's wardrobe who knows what works for her. Styling embodies the signature purposeful layered messiness that we have come to associate with Miu Miu, models are strong, individual, unique people who move within the world differently from the next. Sevigny returns to Mrs. Prada's runway for the second time since her debut in 1996, Anderson, McMenamy, and Ward all embody women of different generations whose beauty is palpable and persistent, while Silvers represents a new generation of talent and self-possession. That's the beauty of Miu Miu, and Miuccia Prada's approach to casting.
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