It shouldn’t be part of anyone’s job to be treated this way. Nearly one-fifth of the way through the 21st century, you shouldn’t have to walk up five flights of stairs in a brand new construction to do your job. (Should you choose to, more power to you and your quads.) Nor should you wait for 25 minutes, without any explanation let alone apology, with hundreds of other people in front of an elevator that just doesn’t open (even if, when it finally arrives, it opens onto an industrial take on pretty pink). Along the way, you shouldn’t be pushed by one guard and refused basic assistance by two others, no matter how uncool they (rightfully) deem you.
That out of the way, on Thursday night, Miuccia Prada showed another powerful, intriguing collection, this one inspired in part by her change of venue to the newest addition to the Fondazione Prada complex, a newly constructed tower. Its black floor and floor-to-ceiling windows looking out over a field of neon signs got Prada thinking about how women navigate the night. “I liked the idea of the night, the night as the place for adventure, the place of freedom and its limits,” she said
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