Prada Frames returns
Prada Frames is coming back for its fifth edition during Milan Design Week, billed as a space where different forms of knowledge meet and as a recurring curated program within the design calendar (wallpaper.com). The announcement positions Prada Frames as a repeat highlight for design‑minded visitors looking for fashion‑adjacent installations during April's events (wallpaper.com).
Prada Frames will return to Milan from April 19 to 21 for its fifth edition, with a 2026 program on image-making called “In Sight.” (prada.com) Prada said the symposium is curated again by Formafantasma and will run alongside Salone del Mobile during Milan Design Week. Admission is free, subject to availability, with registration opening on April 13 through Prada’s website. (prada.com) Wallpaper reported the event as part of its Milan Design Week 2026 watchlist, describing Prada Frames as a recurring stop in the city’s April design calendar. The magazine said the fifth edition continues Prada’s collaboration with Formafantasma. (wallpaper.com) This year’s theme shifts the conversation to how images are made, circulated, and trusted. Prada said the program examines image-making at a moment when visual culture is shaped by both human authorship and machine-generated systems. (prada.com) The 2026 sessions are set in Santa Maria delle Grazie, the historic Milan complex best known for housing Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper.” WWD reported that attendees will also be offered guided tours tied to the site. (wwd.com) Prada Frames began in 2022 with “On Forest,” a symposium that examined the relationship between design and the environment. Prada Group said that first edition was conceived as a scientific, educational, and informative program rather than a product showcase. (pradagroup.com) The editions since then have tracked a broader set of systems questions: “Materials in Flux” in 2023, “Being Home” in 2024, and “In Transit” in 2025. Prada’s 2025 event page said last year’s program looked at infrastructure as a system shaping the movement of people, goods, data, and power. (fuorisalone.it) (formafantasma.com) (prada.com) The timing also puts Prada Frames just ahead of the main fair. Galerie said the 64th Salone del Mobile runs from April 21 to 26 at Rho Fiera Milano, with more than 1,900 exhibitors from 32 countries. (galeriemagazine.com) By the time Milan Design Week opens in full, Prada Frames will already have spent three days making the case that a fashion brand can anchor a public ideas forum as well as an installation. (prada.com)
