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
The Devil Wears Prada (film) the fashion industry—when the masses started to pay attention to the business of what they wore." It credited the movie with helping stir interest in the American adaptation of the Colombian television series "Ugly Betty", which debuted months after its release. The film also has been credited with increasing interest in R.J. Cutler's documentary "The September Issue", which followed Wintour and other "Vogue" editors as they prepared the issue for that month of 2007. Writing in "The Ringer" on the tenth anniversary, Alison Herman observed that ""The Devil Wears Prada" transformed Wintour's image from that of a mere public figure