Architects Rem Koolhaas, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, and designers Konstantin Grcic, and Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have all contributed to Prada's Autumn Winter 2018 menswear collection.
The Italian label invited a range of designers to create garments and accessories for its latest collection, which was presented yesterday as part of this season's menswear fashion week in Milan.
Brothers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec created a shoulder bag inspired by folders used to carry and transport art
The collaboration, named Prada Invites, called for each designer to take an "industrial" approach using black nylon ? a material seen throughout the rest of the collection.
The brand describes this material as "timeless, practical yet precious, an avant-garde expression of elegance for today". "Drawn from the universe of workwear, the military and industry, the fabric transgresses traditional signifiers of opulence, expressing a fresh breed of transgressive and subversive sophistication," it said.
For their offering, brothers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec created a bag inspired by folders used to carry and transport art.
"I've always liked the profiles of people ? architects, painters and students ? walking around with art folders; the movement of that rectangle, its clear-cut, fixed geometry contrasting with the moving bodies," said Ronan Bouroullec.
"This project takes that geometry and instils it in a shoulder bag, with its inside ...