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Comics both inspire and illustrate the Prada men’s Spring-Summer 2018 collection, but there are no capes - just plenty of fine topcoats in herringbone, or plain camel and gray wool.
Designer Miuccia Prada, pictured right, said that the central idea was ‘really that on one side is the virtual reality and on the other is the reality of the human part’.
Full-shouldered shirts in red or black nylon with sleeves pulled to the bicep then fixed with a Prada Velcro tab are worn, collar up, over similarly collar-popped shirts.
Trousers are either both wide and woollen, pulled high and secured with a narrow belt at the top, or tapered, narrow and nylon, secured with a Prada Velcro tag at the ankle.
There are outlines of comic panels in 1980s pink and blue hues on narrow belts bisecting cotton jumpsuits, worn over comic cell shirts.
