14 Prada Beauty Muses Who Stole the Runway—and the Red Carpet

To be cast in a Prada show is essentially like winning the modeling lottery. It packs a certain cache—one that speaks less to beauty, or height, or build, or gait and more to a certain kind of unconventionality. “There is no Prada woman,” the needle-moving Miuccia Prada has famously said, deflecting questions meant to pigeonhole the women she’s inspired by. Where Prada is concerned, in other words, there is only substance and originality.

It’s a way of looking at beauty that helped catapult more than a few ’90s-era models—Amber Valletta, Angela Lindvall, et al—into ’90s-era supermodels after appearances at the designer’s seasonal shows and memorable campaigns. Of course, it has also made fashion icons out of the hand-picked roster of celebrities she dresses for the red carpet, from a lavender-clad ingenue named Uma Thurman to breakout red carpet star Lupita Nyong’o.

Because not everyone gets to wear Prada, here’s to the chosen ones.

 

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