The doyenne of the eponymous fashion brand, whose revenues hit €4.7b in 2023 (and whose sales were up 93 percent by the middle of 2024), has put succession plans in place (her eldest son, Lorenzo Bertelli, is now majority shareholder), stating that clothes and luxury goods presently occupy only ‘one third’ of her life. As the former member of the Italian Communist Party told Vogue this year, family takes up another third, while the rest of her time is devoted to ‘culture and the Fondazione’. The Venice-and-Milan-based private institution is no trinket (with Tokyo and Shanghai project spaces), and Prada is very hands-on, telling Vogue how she struggled to find a curator who would fully embrace her vision of a future show on feminism. She did, however, get the likes of Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler to curate Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power, 1500–2025, a Marx-tinged show on tech and power that closed in January; while Meriem Bennani installed a solo exhibition in Milan, Christoph Büchel in Venice, Michaël Borremans in China and Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin in Japan.