PRADA GATHERS FILMMAKERS AND ARTISTS AT THE DEPOSITO

Prada SS27 guests include Barry Jenkins, Lulu Wang and Cao Fei, part of a group of filmmakers, artists and an architect attending the womenswear show at Fondazione Prada's Deposito in Milan. The guest portraits place their clothes against a pale background, leaving the gathering's range to the names in Prada's caption.

Jenkins has a particularly direct connection to the house's recent image making. Prada commissioned him for its Simple Stories campaign, which placed performers in separate domestic scenes for Fall Winter 2026. His appearance at the new show brings a recent campaign director into the audience for the next collection.

The portraits are quieter than that list might suggest. Broad tailoring, stripes and a grey knit take up most of the frame in the opening images. Prada does not need a film set behind each director or an artwork beside every artist for the caption to establish who has gathered in Milan.

Jenkins Joins Wang, Refn and Vinterberg

Prada names Barry Jenkins, Lulu Wang, Nicolas Winding Refn, Luca Guadagnino and Thomas Vinterberg among the attendees. The five filmmakers appear in the guest list for the Spring Summer 2027 womenswear show, with Prada identifying each filmmaker by name in its attendance caption.

That distinction leaves the event as a meeting point without inventing a commission. A show invitation establishes attendance. Jenkins' Simple Stories work establishes an existing campaign relationship, but that conclusion cannot simply be applied to every director photographed at the Deposito.

The guest list also changes how the portraits read. A pale backdrop and a jacket could belong to many fashion events; the named group makes this one a specific gathering of people whose work is normally encountered on screens and in cinemas. The photographs give them a shared visual setting without requiring matching clothes.

The sequence has room for differences in proportion. A broad dark jacket occupies the frame differently from a lighter knit or a striped layer. Those differences remain visible because the background supplies very little competing information.

Artists and an Architect Share the Caption

Cao Fei, Theaster Gates, Carsten Höller, Andreas Gursky, Jeff Koons, Francesco Vezzoli and Thomas Demand are also named by Prada. Architect Jacques Herzog completes the announced group alongside the filmmakers.

Putting those names in one caption gives the show an audience that spans several ways of making images and spaces. Photography, installation, sculpture, architecture and film are represented through the attendees, though the post does not assign them a collective project or a shared interpretation of the runway.

The setting already has a role in Prada's fashion calendar. Its Fall Winter menswear presentation also used the Deposito, before the trench coats and other pieces reached stores. The same place can hold a runway, a sequence of guest photographs and the art institution's broader identity without those activities becoming identical.

For this post, the most useful evidence remains the named attendance. A portrait records who came and what the camera shows them wearing. It does not reveal a private conversation, an endorsement of a particular look or plans for a future collaboration.

Deposito Hosts a Collection Built Around Skirts

Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons describe the Spring Summer 2027 collection as an exploration of the skirt, presented across 63 looks. The official show notes include contrasting Velcro used beneath crystal embroidery and enlarged, jewelled snap fasteners.

Those details connect the named guest gathering to the particular collection that Prada and Simons presented at the Deposito. The clothes on the runway examine fastenings, surfaces and variations within one garment category; the portraits document the people who attended that presentation.

Jenkins' existing campaign link and the attendance of Herzog, Gursky and Cao Fei give the sequence its particular shape. The Deposito supplies the common address, while Prada's pale portrait setting leaves thirteen names and their distinct appearances to carry the encounter.