While rock-obsessed New York designers were promoting grunge on their runways, the Milanese were falling for the Summer of Love. Even Miuccia Prada felt the vibe, opening her Spring 1993 show with topstitched suedes and leather daisy belts and chokers. If Haight-Ashbury informed the first third of the show, the rest was geared to an island getaway at a tony resort. There were bathing suits and cover-ups, shifts with cutout stars, fringed linen maxi dresses, as well as dramatic showstoppers like a sexy raffia crochet gown. The finale consisted of fringed pieces, including some haute hula-like skirts.
