By Jess Cartner-Morley
Publication Date: 2026-02-27 07:00:00
Prada co-designers Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons said backstage at Milan Fashion Week that fashion’s biggest challenges are inequality and artificial intelligence.
An interesting perspective since Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire owner of Meta, and his wife Priscilla Chan were sitting in the front row next to Lorenzo Bertelli, Prada’s husband.
There are reports that Meta is working with Prada on “smart glasses” with integrated camera, processing and voice assistant functions.
Prada said of the diplomatic demands of her job: “We are a company that makes expensive clothes for rich people. So I try to be political, but I can’t be obvious.”
Simons, meanwhile, said the colorful scarf the first model wore was a nod to the Pride flag, which is under attack as conservatism returns to politics, but the design duo mostly limited…