If there’s one thing Miuccia Prada has never wavered on, it’s the power of a good skirt. Throughout her tenure at Prada, the designer has treated the wardrobe staple as something far more interesting than a femme formality, continually reimagining its proportions, subverting its prim-and-proper associations, and challenging the very notion of what makes a skirt desirable. For Spring/Summer 2027 , that fascination found its latest expression in a silhouette that has spent far too long relegated to the corporate dress code: the knee-length skirt. And no, this isn’t an invitation to dress like an extra on Mad Men .

At Prada, the once-conservative hemline felt anything but conventional. Rather than leaning into its buttoned-up reputation, the collection reframed the knee-length skirt as an exercise in modernity, proving that a little restraint can be infinitely more interesting than an abundance of skin.…