Prada Launches Black Nylon Spring/Summer 2018 Campaign, Lensed By Willy Vanderperre

Prada launches its Black Nylon Spring Summer 2018 advertising campaign featuring models Gisele Fox, Kris Grikaite, Imari Karanja, Line Kjaergaard, Fran Summers, Anok Yai, and Alyssa Traore. Fashion photographer Willy Vanderperre captures the DNA of Prada's original design vision, with styling by Olivier Rizzo./ Hair by Eugene Souleiman;  makeup by Lucia Pieroni.

No one is more shocked to find herself in a Prada campaign than Sudanese-born Anok Yai, who was photographed in November 2017 by Steven Hall at Howard University's homecoming event in Washington, DC. Yai's images went viral and - poof - she's in a Prada campaign. 

Related: A photographer unexpectedly snapped her picture at homecoming. Then, modeling agencies called. The Washington Post

“Timeless, practical yet precious, an avant-garde expression of elegance for today, nylon is a founding principle of Prada. Drawn from the universe of workwear, the military and industry, the fabric transgresses traditional signifiers of opulence, expressing a fresh breed of transgressive and subversive sophistication. In the context of luxury, nylon is provocative, modern, open to endless reinterpretation. A new classic, and fundamentally Prada.“