Prada banks on handbags to revive fortunes
The fashion house has been hit by two consecutive years of stagnating sales amid slowdown in China
Milan
PRADA'S answer to stagnating sales was unveiled on Thursday with a handbag-heavy Fall-Winter collection that the company's executives hope will spark a revival in the fashion heavyweight's flagging fortunes.
Miuccia Prada's latest offering had a post-war feel about it with sailor or nurse-style white caps abounding alongside cape- shaped coats and pencil skirts designed to emphasise the slender waists of more austere times.
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