Fashion designer Raf Simons has announced that he is becoming co-creative director of Italian label Prada, where he will work alongside Miuccia Prada.
The collaboration between Belgium-born Simons and Miuccia Prada ? who has sat at the helm of Prada since 1978 ? is said to come from "a deep reciprocal respect" between the two designers.
"It opens a new dialogue, between designers widely acknowledged as two of the most important and influential of today," said the brand in a statement.
"Conceptually, it is also a new approach to the very definition of creative direction for a fashion brand - a strong challenge to the idea of singularity of creative authorship."
Simons previously worked at Christian Dior and Calvin Klein This isn't the first time that Simons has worked at a high-end fashion house. Since launching his self-titled menswear label in 1995, the designer served as creative director for Jil Sander between 2005-2012, before moving on to Christian Dior where he stayed until 2015.

The following year he moved to Calvin Klein, where he steered the brand's creative output until 2018.
In between the designer has also partnered with mainstream brands like Adidas, creating trainers inspired by vintage space suits, and luggage company Eastpak, for which he has produced a line of bags that nod to the aesthetics of sci-fi film Blade Runner.
Simmons to bring "a different point of view"
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