Prada Fall 2026 Menswear

At Prada, discomfort was the point. Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons set out to explore what they called “universal human values” through clothing, and the result was a collection that felt both cerebral and quietly confrontational. Shown in a stripped-down apartment space where ornate mouldings and marble fireplaces clung to the walls like ghosts of another era, the atmosphere was tense but deliberate. To the distorted sound of Virgin Prunes and Suicide, the designers sent out models in tubular coats and slim, flaring trousers that seemed to question whether beauty can exist without unease.

The silhouette was narrow and elongated, almost fragile, with long coats worn as casually as bomber jackets. Tailored shirts appeared scorched or creased, their cuffs purposely iron-burned as though touched by time. Colours ran from dusty mauve to old rose, deep purple and anise green, a palette that felt at once strange and deeply human. Every imperfection appeared studied: rumpled leather, weathered seams, frayed elbows revealing tweed beneath. It was Prada and Simons at their most introspective, proposing that elegance might live inside imperfection rather than beyond it.

For all its restraint, the show carried emotional weight. “Uncomfortable is the perfect word for the psychology of this moment,” Prada wrote in her notes, and that tension translated into clothes that looked precise but felt uncertain, caught between past and future. There was little spectacle, but plenty of meaning, in the way each look balanced discipline with fragility. In a Milan season crowded with nostalgia, Prada’s Fall 2026 collection stood apart as something more complex: a reminder that the most intelligent fashion often begins with discomfort.