How An Italian Communist Saved Prada -

Miuccia Prada spent her twenties handing out Communist Party flyers, training as a mime, and calling fashion “horrid” — so how did this reluctant heir end up rebuilding Prada into a multibillion-euro luxury empire? This is the true story of how a woman who despised the fashion industry inherited a struggling half-million-dollar leather shop in 1978 and turned it into one of the most powerful names in the world, using a military parachute fabric nobody wanted, a marriage that became a business partnership, and a philosophy she called “ugly chic.” Along the way there’s a near-collapse under 1.7 billion euros in debt, an unlikely IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, a public scandal she had to answer for, and a 2025 acquisition of her old rival that would have seemed impossible to the young woman marching in Communist demonstrations. If you think you know the Prada story, you don’t know how close it came to never happening at all. This is a Build Incorporated documentary about the people and decisions behind the world’s biggest brands — the failures, the risks, and the reinventions nobody talks about. Subscribe for more real stories of how ordinary, unlikely people built extraordinary businesses.

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