"The skirt is like a T-shirt."

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Prada-Skirt Fever Is Everywhere

2 October, 2026

Words by:

Sarah Palmieri

In case you haven't clocked it, Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons went full skirt for Prada's Spring 2027 collection in Milan. Will the house's heirloom piece stay as precious as it has always been, now that the conversation is shifting from adoration to trend?

It’s an easy headline, made easier by what might be Miuccia Prada’s most quoted line, from her interview with Ingrid Sischy: “The skirt is like a T-shirt.” Of course, anything that comes out of the mouth of that glamorous, hugely influential woman is going to send waves through the fashion community and beyond. She holds a PhD in political science, she’s been a provocative feminist activist, and she’s also… a billionaire. Make of that combination what you will.

So for Spring 2027, she and her admired collaborator Raf Simons, a pair with a history of daring runways (still daring in a very refined, very Prada way), leant fully into the brand’s beloved skirt.

The scene was set in Milan, a city that hums with northern Italian class and taste. You find it in the architecture, the food, the piazzas. Mrs Prada’s influence on the city is unmissable. Or perhaps it’s the city’s influence on her? The collection was shown in a stark white room that landed somewhere near sexy hospital. Très clinical, très LEDs, très glassé. The models entered, and our eyes stayed put: just below the waist and just above the knee.

Skirts came pleated, layered, embellished and sequinned. Some came with tiny bandeau tops, open-toe heels, knitted jumpers and frizzed hair. Whatever the pairing, the point was to show how many ways, and how many personalities, can come through a skirt.

And so “Prada, the brand for skirts” gets splashed about. Little by little it becomes less about the label’s heritage and what Prada was actually saying, and more about the trend cycle. Before long, the layered sheer black skirt with its light blue and green underskirting, and those perfectly folded, low-waisted, ultra-precise pieces of beauty, turn up at Shein or Zara. Not to be a cynic!

Since the show, the numbers back up the skirt takeover. As Vogue reported, eBay saw global searches for “Prada skirt” jump 360% in the days after the collection came down the runway. Over at The RealReal, searches for the same thing rose 78% on show day itself, 22 September. According to a spokesperson, that day and the next were the platform’s two biggest demand days of the year so far for Prada skirts.

The three Prada skirts I had sitting in my likes on Vestiaire Collective? All snapped up since the show. I’m not happy about it… but I digress.

So where does that leave the skirt? Somewhere between heirloom and hype. The pieces Mrs Prada and Simons sent down that glass runway were made to be kept, the kind you pass down rather than throw out. The internet, though, has other plans, and they move a lot faster than any archive. Maybe that’s the point, though. If the skirt really is like a T-shirt, it was never meant to sit behind glass. It was meant to be worn and wanted, and apparently fought over on resale sites.

As for me, I’ll be deep diving into Mrs Prada’s other tea-riddled interviews to clock the next trend before it comes for my wardrobe.

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