Milan Fashion Week has kicked off a season of fresh starts, with new creative directors and a clear push toward practical glamour.

Miuccia Prada's Miu Miu has delivered a steady performance at Paris Fashion Week, offering reassurance amid France's political instability.

Milan designers have expressed their concern over the global turbulence through their collections without making overt statements.

The Prada Group is expanding its production footprint in Italy, including dozens of new jobs at its knitwear factory in Umbria, leaning into “Made in Italy” as integral to the brand’s ethos.

Don’t call them nostalgic.

The new Prada menswear collection for next fall and winter unveiled on the third day of Milan Fashion Week menswear previews has marked the return of the seasons as a point of renewal of the spirit.

A Houston area woman recently lost her Prada wallet which contained hundreds of dollars. In an act of remarkable kindness, a Good Samaritan returned the wallet to her doorstep before the owner even realized it was missing.

The Prada fashion house has begun charting a line of succession on its business side by tapping a former LVMH executive as its next CEO.

After several seasons affected by coronavirus restrictions, Milan Fashion Week is back to its pre-pandemic splendor.

Shoppers can sift through new and gently worn pieces of all sizes and styles, for some of the greatest deals in Houston.

To celebrate his friend rapper Lil Baby’s 26th birthday this week, Harden gifted him a Prada duffle bag filled with goodies, TMZ reports. Lil Baby shared a video showing off his pricey gifts from the Rockets player on Instagram. “A Prada bag ‘cause he proud of me [and] full of honey buns with a honey bun, you know what I’m saying?” he said in an Instagram video. Included in the $300,000 designer gift bag, honey bun pastries surrounded by a bundle of hundreds referred to in the video as a “honey bun,” which is slang for $100,000, TMZ reports. Lil Baby also received a Richard Mille watch worth $200,000, totaling the value of Harden’s gift to him at approximately $600,000.

Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele teamed up with film director Gus Van Sant to create a seven-part mini-series revealing Guccis latest collection, dubbed Ouverture. Film and fashion have a long relationship, and Gucci is not the first fashion house to team up with a filmmaker, even during the pandemic. Van Sant traveled to Rome, where he filmed part of “My Private Idaho” 30 years ago, to shoot on location. “There is a cinematic fusing with commerce,’’ Van Sant said. “The combination of cinema with exposing fashion ideas has a lot of potential, as cinema starts to get sucked into the computer screen,’’ Van Sant said.

A model wears a creation as part of the Max Mara 2021 women's spring-summer ready-to-wear collection during the Milan's fashion week in Milan, Italy, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020. The most anticipated event of the week was Prada’s virtual unveiling of the Miuccia Prada-Raf Simons collaboration announced in February. The designers joined the virtual audience for a dialogue after the presentation, responding to questions that had been submitted in advance. In a bid for democracy in luxury fashion, anyone can access the same preview experience as fashion insiders on Prada’s YouTube channel. ____MAX MARA’S RENAISSANCEMax Mara gave Milan Fashion Week its physical bearings, with a runway show around the porticoed courtyard of the Brera Painting Gallery, safe from threatening skies.

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