Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons kicked off Milan Fashion Week on Tuesday with a bold Spring 2027 collection focusing on a single garment: the skirt. All 63 looks featured some variation of a knee-length skirt, nearly half of them styled with a variation of another classic garment on top: the bra.
“A skirt may be abstracted, a fragment of a whole with a mutating rapport with the pieces it juxtaposes: a sweater, a shirt, a bra top, can each suggest alternate readings of a whole,” read the show notes. At Prada, some bras were slightly obscured by a jacket or shirt, but most were worn solo in a powerful co-sign of an outfit formula we’ve been seeing throughout the Spring 2027 shows, from New York to London to Milan.
Prada Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
View the 3 images of this gallery on the original articleSandy Liang (whose designs often have a certain Prada-ness to them) included a number of bra tops, paired with both skirts and culottes, in her show styled by Dean DiCriscio. She aimed to evoke the joy of being outdoors in the spring by focusing on utilitarian functionality through a princess-y lens. “It’s technical dressing filtered through fantasy, practicality made precious, for the girl who lives in a fairytale, whose home team is Versailles,” read the show notes.
Sandy Liang Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
View the 3 images of this gallery on the original articleAlso in New York, Altuzarra Spring 2027 featured several skirts styled with bras, mostly peeking through an open shirt or sweater towards the end of the collection. Inspired by Casa Susanna, a retreat in the Catskills where men would gather to dress as women in the 1960s, the designer aimed to capture their spirit with “a wardrobe that explores self-invention, nostalgia and the liberating possibilities of summer,” the show notes read. The clothes became more feminine and expressive as the show progressed; towards the end, “femininity is no longer contained beneath the surface but breaks through it,” per the show notes. “The wardrobe moves from the uniforms of everyday life toward something more expressive, romantic and free.”
Altuzarra Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
View the 2 images of this gallery on the original articleLater on in London, Mowalola showed minimalist bra-and-skirt looks in an effort to “return, laser-focused, to the codes that first defined her brand’s inception: autonomy, sensuality and a radical liberation of self,” according to the show notes. Worn alongside sharp pencil skirts, these looks apparently offer a new approach to office wear. “I’m running my company, and I wouldn’t dress like a ‘CEO’” Mowalola said in a statement. “This is how I show up – and these are the women like me: other women who enjoy, and find power in, their sensuality.”
Whether it’s for your incredibly open-minded office (I dare someone to wear this while holding an iced coffee at their next job interview), a playful way to beat the summer heat or an accidentally chic getting-ready outfit you wear at home before deciding on a real shirt, the bra-and-skirt combo is undeniably appealing.
Ahead, see how this trend is showing up across Spring 2027 runways.
Spring 2027 Runway Trend: Bras With SkirtsAkki Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Aknvas Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Altuzarra Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Area Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Ashlyn Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Alix of Bohemia Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Aisling Camps Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Chopova Lowena Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Paul Costelloe Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Cult Gaia Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Cult Gaia Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Di Petsa Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Diesel Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Diesel Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Ella Mae Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Fendi Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Fendi Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Fforme Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Carolina Herrera Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Khaite Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Khaite Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Michael Kors Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Michael Kors Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Lovebirds Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Lovebirds Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Loveshackfancy Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Marlene Birger Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Contessa Mills Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Contessa Mills Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Mowalola Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Mowalola Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Mowalola Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
M&S Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Onalaja Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Operasport Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
PatBo Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
PatBo Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
3.1 Phillip Lim Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Prabal Gurung Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Prabal Gurung Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Prada Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Prada Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Prada Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Prada Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Prada Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Private Policy Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Simone Rocha Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Simone Rocha Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Sandy Liang Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Sandy Liang Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Sandy Liang Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Christian Siriano Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Stine Goya Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Vettese Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Vettese Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Vettese Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Jane Wade Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Jane Wade Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight
Zankov Spring 2027. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight