Miuccia Prada

Biography

Miuccia Bianchi Prada (on 10 May 1949) is an Italian billionaire fashion designer and businesswoman. She is the head designer of Prada and the founder of its subsidiary Miu Miu. As of October 2021, Forbes estimated her net worth at US$4.8 billion. In August 2021, Bloomberg estimated her net worth to be $6.6 billion, ranking 430th in the world.

The youngest granddaughter of Mario Prada, Miuccia Prada took over the family-owned luxury goods manufacturer in 1978. Since then, the company has acquired Jil Sander, Helmut Lang, and shoemaker Church & Co. In 2002, Prada opened her contemporary art museum.

In March 2013, Prada was named one of the fifty best-dressed over-50s by Forbes. The magazine listed her as the 75th most powerful woman in the world in 2014, when she had an estimated net worth of $11.1 billion

As of 2014, Prada is the co-CEO of Prada, together with her husband.

In 2020, Prada presented her final collection as the brand's sole creative director; because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was unveiled in a sequence of short films directed by artists including Martine Syms and Juergen Teller. She has since been sharing that responsibility with Raf Simons.

In 2010, Prada designed costumes for the Verdi opera "Attila" at the New York City Metropolitan Opera House.