Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons served up yet one more lovely present for autumn/winter 2024 in Milan—one which embedded “fragments of histories in an exploration of notions of magnificence.” The gathering was replete with female, romantic touches like frills and bows, and the wonder adopted swimsuit.

Hairstylist Guido Palau created breathtaking sculptural hair “impressed by the previous and the longer term,” he informed Vogue. “The inspiration got here from each Miuccia and Raf. They talked to me concerning the assortment and the way it was about completely different eras in time, so we got here up with this concept of this nearly Artwork Nouveau model of hair, however completed in a contemporary, futuristic means.”

To create the look: “We used hair gel and high-shine lacquer to attain a really sculpted, futuristic feeling to the hair,” he defined. “The model was achieved utilizing each finger wave and pin curl strategies, which is an quaint setting thought.” The juxtaposition of a standard approach with the futuristic outcomes is strictly the strategy Palau needed. “Clearly all the pieces is influenced by the previous, and with out the previous you may’t have the current, so I felt this was a really trendy tackle a traditional hair model.”

Prada Magnificence’s world inventive make-up artist Lynsey Alexander reeled off a string of phrases to elucidate the multitude of eras referenced within the magnificence look: “Punk gothic, English schoolgirl, house alien, fragments of historical past, exhausting romance, ’40s wartime… there was a lot taking place within the assortment, and with the hats and the glasses and complicated hair, the make-up needed to be a bit of quieter—therefore the softening of the brows,” she explains. “We didn’t take away them utterly, however undoubtedly diminished a component which may compete with all the pieces else across the face. It additionally retains a sure modernity when you will have such a hyper nude face—not uncooked, as each function was fastidiously perfected.”