Talk to a mathematician or an architect and they’ll tell you the triangle is the strongest, most powerful shape. Ask any fashion-minded individual and they’ll say the very same—especially if it’s ...

When Miuccia Prada took over her grandfather's leather-goods shop in 1978, she came armed with a radical idea: industrial nylon—the same material employed by the military for tents and parachutes. It ...

Nylon backpacks, brushed-leather Cleo bags, and Re-Edition 2000s studded in crystals: Let us count the ways iconic Prada bags have graced our closets and those of the style icons we so admire. And yet ...

MILAN — At Prada, leather goods are “a symbolic part of its history and future,” said the group’s chief executive officer Andrea Guerra last week, as the company reported that for the first time it ...

Some monarchs are honored with statues; the English are partial to this method. Others have gotten their own terra-cotta army to provide protection in the afterlife (see: Qin Shi Huang, the first ...

SCENE: A PACKED New York City subway train, headed toward midtown in morning rush hour. Professional women, nearly all scanning smartphones, balance bags on their knees, in the crook of their arms, on ...