Of all the designer quotes that circulated during the autumn/winter '24/'25 shows earlier this year, one stood out. “I say to myself every morning, ‘I have to decide whether I am a 15-year-old girl, or a woman close to death,’” Miuccia Prada shared of her inspiration at Miu Miu. This was conveyed through the collection's mix of ingenue and clothes with maturity, but also in the runway cast, which comprised a split of fashion models and nonmodels spanning different ages and careers – from Gigi Hadid to retired Chinese doctor Qin Huilan.
“I didn't know anything about fashion before, and even now I don't know much … I was busy in the hospital most of the time, so I gave up [my] pursuit of beauty,” the 70-year-old says. Miu Miu's team discovered the medic's Instagram account, where she models her son's vast collection of archival Prada, and flew her from Shanghai to Paris. “Their designs never seem to go out
