Miuccia Bianchi Prada, a famous Italian fashion designer, was born in May 10, 1949. In 1978, she was lucky to inherit the Prada business from her mother. She and her husband Patrizio Bertelli led the company’s expansion into ready-to-wear apparell. The youngest granddaughter of Prada founder Mario Prada, Miuccia has a Ph.D. in Political Science.
Prada has long been a financial supporter of art. Miuccia has recently organized a traveling, art-gallery style display of many skirts she has designed. This fancy exhibition was called “Waist Down”. Prada built her family’s modest luggage brand into a company worth billions. She is the younger daughter of Luigi “Gino” Bianchi and his wife, the former Luisia Prada. She was adopted in the 1980s by her mother’s sister, an act which changed her surname to Prada. Her maternal grandfather, Mario Prada, and his brother, Martino, established the family luxury leather goods company in Milan in 1913; called Fratelli Prada. Originally, it was a small luxury goods and accessories shop.
In 1985, she designed a new line of black, hard-wearing, but finely-woven nylon handbags that immediately became must-haves for the fashion cognoscenti, seen hanging off the arm of the likes of Jerry Hall and Marie Helvin. With retail prices starting at around £250, a bootlegging industry quickly sprang up, making the authentic articles even more desirable. More importantly, Prada bags were established as the accessory of choice for supermodels and fashion editors the world over. Clean and stylish designs, fine materials and exquisite craftsmanship conspired to win Prada a Council of Fashion Designers of America International Award in 1993. A year later, she showed in New York for the first time and opened her London boutique. She now shows for Prada and Miu Miu twice a year in Milan.
Miuccia met her husband and business partner Patrizio Bertelli at the same time she took the helm of the family company. “If I hadn’t met him, I probably would have given up - or at least not been able to do what I have done,” she once said. It was under Bertelli’s sway that the design house started making moves towards becoming an international conglomerate to rival LVMH in 1999/2000, adding such top flight labels as Fendi, Helmut Lang, Jil Sander and Azzedine Alaia to its portfolio of brands.
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