The importance of work. Its significance, its relevance and meaning. The Spring/Summer 2026 Miu Miu collection by Miuccia Prada is a consideration of the work of women - their challenges, adversity, experience.

Its invisibility is confronted and addressed, recognized and valorized. Work as an expression of effort. Work as a symbol of care and love. Work as a reflection of independence, a means of agency. Moving between these inherited aesthetic citations, sentiments transpose. An observation of factory work in the documentary photography of Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) and Helga Paris (1938-2024) provides a perspective on a reality of clothes: a challenge and inversion of societal definitions, ramifications and expectations.