Founded in 1913 as a leather-goods house in Milan, Prada entered the field of fashion when Miuccia Prada took the helm of the company in 1979. After initially focusing on accessories, she presented the house&;s first fashion collection in 1988, quickly transforming Prada into one of the world&;s most influential luxury brands. Her deeply personal, sophisticated, and subtly subversive approach often works against the clichés of beauty and sexy as she strives, in her own words, to be &;more clever, or more difficult, or more complicated . . . Sprache: Englisch Autor: Susannah Frankel