Prada panned for bedhead hair trend at Milan Fashion Week: Depression is chic

They’re slaying total despair hair with flair. Runway baddies looked more like runaway bandits for Prada’s Fall-Winter 2025/2026 show during Milan Fashion Week, where “depression core” dos were, apparently, the luxe label’s mane claim to fame. “Oooooh, so I have Prada hair not chronic depression hair.Niiiiice,” teased a kidder beneath trending footage of Prada models and their messy mops at the fashion house’s recent show in Italy. “My hair looks like this after bed rotting for a week,” joked another under visuals of the catwalk icons sporting unkempt coifs, sloppy ponytails and jumbled buns. The anti-voguish styles scared up nearly 18 million TikTok views from freaked out faultfinders, who weren’t shy about hitting the couturier with a brush of harsh criticism. But it seems receiving a little bed-head backlash was all a part of Prada’s master plan to spark deep discourse about beauty. “What does femininity mean today? How can it be defined?,” asks the posh imprint on its site.

“The Fall/Winter 2025 Prada show by Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons is an interrogation of these concepts – itself an exercise in posing questions [and] provoking discussion around our collective perception of the typicality of femininity, about notions of beauty, about how those perceptions can constantly change.”Stitched into the collection, which features knee-length dresses with minimalist silhouettes and loose-lifting tops with pajamas-esque finishes, is a spirit of “rawness” that designers hoped would highlight “the rapport between body and dress.”“Dresses – emblematic of femininity – are constantly, ceaselessly transformed, through both form and how each is worn,” writes Prada, also citing “displacement” as a theme of its latest line.“Gestures of glamour in accessories — jewels, handbags, bows, decoration — contrast with this rawness.”The fashioner’s flowery explanation of the unconventional looks notwithstanding, o...