Nylon Backpack as Trojan Horse

"Miuccia's production diversifies thanks to the use of original materials and unexpected combinations. By elevating a nylon backpack to a cult object, she makes her first indelible mark. And then she goes further: from bags to shoes and clothes, the step is short, especially if you have beside you a fiery and brilliant entrepreneurial partner, with whom she discusses everything, continuously."

"She has dismantled the prevailing aesthetic standards in the world of fashion, introduced disturbing concepts, uprooted clichés, created a new stylistic language for emancipated, free women, transformed an industrial material into a cult object, captured the spirit of the times and put it on the catwalk."

"Two years later, she debuted with her first collection, presented in an elegant building behind the Arch of Peace: an unconventional, original, independent designer, completely foreign to the prevailing aesthetics of those years, a avant-garde woman who had already destabilized the luxury world with a black nylon backpack. Her name is Miuccia Prada, a maternal surname that formally became hers when in the 1980s she was adopted by her aunt Nanda. About a decade earlier, she had found herself, attracted by the love for beauty, taking over the store in the Galleria opened by her grandfather Mario and then passed on to her mother Luisa and aunt."