Prada works out the lace!

Miuccia Prada offered a new form of austere sexuality, with lace as the new tool of seduction, in her autumn/winter collection, shown at Milan Fashion Week yesterday.

The predominant color was black, worked dramatically in a straight dress over a pale pastel blue tunic or worn with barely nothing at all for a sexy twist to the traditional textile.

Prada spun out of black into startling bright orange for a straight lace skirt, or used gold for a glamorous jacket and skirt. And she lightened the texture for a black chiffon dress banded with net curtain panels.

The collection was based almost entirely on lace – 600 metres of it, to be exact, imported from Switzerland – and it came see-through or layered over flesh-tone, stretch-silk, body-stockings, leotards, bodices and big knickers.

Prada design on Milan's catwalk