A Prada Brown Belted Safari Jacket (SS 1996)
A Prada Brown Belted Safari Jacket (SS 1996)
A Prada Brown Belted Safari Jacket (SS 1996)
A Prada Brown Belted Safari Jacket (SS 1996)
A Prada Brown Belted Safari Jacket (SS 1996)
A Prada Brown Belted Safari Jacket (SS 1996)
A Prada Brown Belted Safari Jacket (SS 1996)
A Prada Brown Belted Safari Jacket (SS 1996)
A Prada Brown Belted Safari Jacket (SS 1996)
A Prada Brown Belted Safari Jacket (SS 1996)
A Prada Brown Belted Safari Jacket (SS 1996)
A Prada Brown Belted Safari Jacket (SS 1996)
A Prada Brown Belted Safari Jacket (SS 1996)
A Prada Brown Belted Safari Jacket (SS 1996)
Prada

A Prada Brown Belted Safari Jacket (SS 1996)

£683.00
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Curator's Note

Miuccia Prada's Spring/Summer 1996 collection, titled Banal Eccentricity, became a defining moment in the designer's exploration of what came to be known as 'ugly chic'. Prada drew on the colours and everyday designs of the 1970s, presenting tailored clothing in shades of brown, mustard yellow and green. The collection combined conventional silhouettes with unusual colour combinations and prints inspired by domestic interiors. A closely corresponding version of this safari jacket appeared on Chandra North in look 8, paired with a matching brown skirt. The runway design shares the jacket's fitted cut, single buttoned chest pocket, vertical topstitched seams and belted waist. The runway version featured a circular belt buckle, whereas this jacket has a rectangular tortoiseshell-effect resin buckle engraved with Prada. Similar resin hardware appeared on other garments and accessories from the collection.

Description

  • Camel-brown tailored safari-style jacket
  • Notched lapels
  • Single-breasted
  • Single patch pocket with buttoned flap at the chest
  • Vertical shaping seams with tonal topstitching through the front and back
  • Horizontal yoke seams across the chest and upper back
  • Matching adjustable fabric belt with belt loops at the waist
  • Rectangular mottled amber-brown resin buckle with engraved Prada lettering

Size and Measurements

  • Labelled size IT 44 (Please refer to measurements for accurate fit)
  • Measurements are taken with the garment laid flat:
    • Shoulder width: 38cm
    • Chest: 41cm
    • Wasit: 38cm
    • Length: 70cm
    • Sleeve length 62cm

Good

The garment remains in good overall condition with some imperfections. These do not detract from its overall appearance or wearability.

Prada

Prada was founded in Milan in 1913 by Mario Prada and his brother Martino as Fratelli Prada, originally selling English leather goods and luggage. On Mario’s death the house passed to his daughter Luisa, and in 1978 to her daughter, Miuccia Prada. Miuccia held a doctorate in political science and trained for five years as a mime, a background with no formal design training that underpins her reputation as fashion’s foremost intellectual. She introduced a black nylon bag in the early 1980s, redesigned in 1985 with the triangular logo that became the house’s signature - an industrial material standing in for leather, inverting what luxury was supposed to look like. Her first ready-to-wear collection followed in 1988, its severe, military-inspired tailoring later read by critics as a pointed subversion of Fascist Italy’s prescribed “feminine” dress codes for women. Through the 1990s she developed this into “ugly chic”: clashing prints and deliberately awkward proportions that unsettled ideas of good taste. Miuccia founded Miu Miu in 1992, and remained Prada’s sole creative director until 2020, when Raf Simons joined as co-creative director.

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