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Prada
Milan, 1913
Miuccia made beauty out of fabrics the industry called ugly. The nylon proved her right.
Mario Prada opened in Milan’s Galleria in 1913, selling trunks and leather goods. His granddaughter Miuccia took over in 1978.
In 1984 she made a backpack from Pocone, a nylon parachute fabric, and spent the next decade proving an industrial material could carry a luxury house. The Tessuto bags and the scratch-resistant Saffiano leather are that thinking in daily use.
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