If there’s one present each mannequin needs to stroll, it’s Prada. The Milanese trend home’s runways have turn out to be a launchpad for brand new abilities who embody Miuccia Prada’s imaginative and prescient. Fall 2022 continued that tradition, however took issues a step additional by specializing in ladies whose careers started with the model. Within the lead-up to the gathering, Prada’s social media accounts heralded a “salute to the career of modeling” with dwelling video clips of its faces pre-fame. The final 24 hours have been full of childhood snapshots from fashions like Kendall Jenner, Anok Yai, and Chu Wong. The clips have been cute, however casting director Ashley Brokaw saved the most important shock for the occasion itself, the place greater than a dozen fashions who beforehand opened for Prada openers reunited on the runway.
Kaia Gerber snagged the primary look, however many others who’d walked in her sneakers have been sprinkled among the many forged. One acquainted face after one other revealed themselves, beginning with American mannequin Amanda Murphy, who made her debut at Prada’s Fall 2013 present. Noughties mannequin followers spied former Prada regulars like Finnish star Suvi Koponen, who debuted again in 2007, and Dutch magnificence Querelle Jansen who took the highest spot for spring 2012. Nineties marketing campaign stars like Hannelore Knuts, Erin O’Connor, and runway-star-turned-tech-entrepreneur Emily Sandberg Gold, additionally featured.
Even with all of the welcome throwbacks to earlier seasons, a few of Prada’s most recognizable retro stars—Sasha Pivovarova and Christy Turlington amongst them—have been absent. Euphoria star Hunter Schafer thrilled the viewers by the closing present, however think about the shockwaves if reclusive Canadian trend icon Daria Werbowy, who hasn’t graced a trend present together with her presence in almost eight years, had stepped onto the catwalk to hitch her.
Beneath, the returning stars on the Fall 2002 and a few of their earliest appearances on the Prada runway.
