How Prada Turned Nylon Into a Luxury Code—and Rebuilt It as Re-Nylon

A black nylon backpack should have been the opposite of conventional luxury. For Prada, that contradiction became the point. The house’s relationship with nylon ultimately produced one of its most recognizable design codes: utilitarian fabric, industrial hardware and pared-back forms placed inside a luxury context. Prada Group identifies the 1984 black nylon backpack as a…