Miuccia Prada and Francesco Vezzoli. Miuccia Prada Miuccia Bianchi Prada (; born Maria Bianchi ; 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. The youngest granddaughter of Mario Prada, she 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 own contemporary art gallery. In March 2013, she was one of the fifty best-dressed over 50 by the "Guardian." In 2014 she was listed as
Cushnie (fashion house) The brand also opened its first brick and mortar location in collaboration with the Council of Fashion Designers of America, in a temporary "Retail Lab" space in the Cadillac showroom in TriBeCa, New York City. After the February 2018 New York Fashion Week, in which Cushnie et Ochs presented its tenth anniversary collection, the brand announced that Ochs would be leaving the company. Cushnie (fashion house) Cushnie (formerly known as Cushnie et Ochs) is an American fashion house founded in 2008 by Carly Cushnie and Michelle Ochs, upon their graduation from Parsons School of Design. Their signature looks are clean,