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Prada - profile
The Prada label was begun in 1913 by Mario Prada when he began selling shoes, leather handbags and trunks. He opened two boutiques in Milan after experience in Europe and U.S.A.The classic Prada suitcase was made of heavy walrus skin but as plane travel made heavy suitcases impractical, the company started to make lighter bags and high quality items made of crystals
09-Mar-2005 - Details

2.	Miuccia Prada Biog In 1992, she debuted the less expensive bridge line Miu Miu (Miuccia's nickname), inspired by her personal wardrobe of earthier, hippyish garments in natural fabrics and colours. 25-Apr-2005 - Details

3.	Miuccia Prada Biography and profiles of fashion designers Fashion Designer Prada was founded in 1913 in Milan, Italy as a manufacturer of leather bags. What is known today as Prada is mostly the work of the founder's grand-daughter Miuccia Prada 25-Apr-2005 - Details

Andre Leon Talley: the fashion guru gets to the bottom of what makes the fashion maven tick - Interv
I think that my emotional world or universe became something real very young because I was an only child in a house of women. I played with other children--I had friends on the street--but the world that touched me was a world based on the people around me
25-Apr-2005 - Details

Women in Fashion: Miuccia Prada
The rise of Mrs. Prada, as she is known to her Italian staff members, is a well-known tale---your basic story of a onetime communist and mime student from Milan who takes over her family's dusty luggage company and, with the help of her go-getting husband, turns it into a luxury conglomerate that in 2002 had revenues of about $1.9 billion.
25-Apr-2005 - Details

6.	The Prada you dont know Miuccia Prada, the brains behind the famous fashion house, guards her privacy so well, few ever get to talk to her. LIONEL SEAH got lucky. 09-Jun-2005 - Details

7.	Prada: Hearts and Stars Miuccia Prada turned down the volume in Milan on Monday, staging a silver-hued men's collection show, where footwear, not fashion nor fabulous concepts, dominated the affair 03-Jul-2005 - Details

8.	Prada is most influential fashion designer Black is the colour for winter. And when Miuccia Prada pushes a colour as strongly as she recently did in her almost entirely black, women's Autumn/Winter 2005-2006 collection, then the fashion world is sure to follow 13-Aug-2005 - Details

9.	In praise of modesty By reinventing what we thought about sex, allure and sensuality, Miuccia Prada has become the most powerful creative force in fashion today. Colin McDowell asks her how she did it 25-Oct-2005 - Details

10.	Prada fashions its growth strategy for next five years The luxury goods house is targeting profit growth of 23.5 per cent a year for the next five years 07-Nov-2005 - Details

11.	The Pope wears Prada The Pope wears Prada. He may not have the charisma and soft, sensitive eyes of his predecessor, but one thing that Pope Benedict has is fashion sense. 21-Feb-2006 - Details

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Prada: This Is As Short As It Gets
Talk about suddenly turning a page. Miuccia Prada, who led the whole Mittel European, modernist Baroque moment, ripped up the game plan in Milan on Tuesday, September 26th.
Instead of richly decorated embroidered fabrics and yes-I-am-rich embellishments, editors got a practically print-less collection where form and exaggeration were the key elements.
28-Sep-2006 - Details

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