MILAN (AP) — Prada’s cavernous showroom was awash in bright orange paint Thursday for a women’s collection that swerved from cocooning to revealing, rigorous to feminine.

Co-creative directors Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons continued their meditation on the uniform, but here they invited women to throw caution to the wind, and pair bright opera gloves with coveralls, the kind a mechanic with sartorial sense might wear.

“We thought a lot about the idea of freedom, freedom in the way you dress,’’ Simons said backstage.

The Prada toolbox

The runway was therefore a toolbox of elements to compose individual looks without regard for conventions of masculinity or femininity, whether colors match or silhouettes jibe.

“Juxtaposition here becomes an act of creation,” the designers said in show no

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