Let's get one thing clear: Heritage is the name of the game this season in Milan. So critics were actually pretty excited when

Prada Designer: Miuccia Prada

• "A collection which blurred the boundaries between East and West in a modern take on after-hour glamour." {AFP}
• "Miuccia Prada, one of the fashion world’s most out-of-the-box thinkers, for next summer takes apart the kimono to discover its most basic silhouette. Then, she puts it all back together again to come up with a full collection of imperial outfits." {The Associated Press}
• "There were the enormous block sandals with split-toe socks and the occasional kimono-like finish, but it was never too literal or obvious." {The Cut/

  New York Magazine}

• "Embracing a philosophy that might best be described as ‘never giving her customers more of what they already love,’ Prada was miserly in her use of color and single-minded in her embellishments." {The Daily Beast/Newsweek}
• "It takes a fiendish fashion genius to turn a metallic sock into a feminist cri de coeur, but Miuccia Prada has that kind of mind." {The Daily Telegraph}
• "Nothing is straightforward in Miuccia’s world. And isn’t that precisely what keeps us interested? That, and some very, very pretty clothes. " {ELLEuk.com}
• "Magically quirky." {FabSugar}
• "In a mesmerizing display, Miuccia Prada distilled some truly beautiful clothes and creations from ... far eastern influences--a courtesan in boxing boots marching proudly, though wreathed with an almost palpable sense of dismay." {Fashion Wire Daily}
• "It wasn't all cold android emotion and dark sobriety; for a hint of playful innocence, nearly every look came adorned with cartoon-like floral appliqué or prints." {fashionologie}
• "There was something rather brooding and rebellious, glamorous but a little sinister." {The Guardian}
• "A collection that was typically heedless of general consensus." {The Independent}
• "In the most personal and soulful collection she has ever done at Prada, Miuccia Prada opened her womanly heart, using that most female of symbols, the flower, but in a powerful, modern way." {International Herald Tribune}
• "In its crush of pink and red satin, in its papery flower appliqués, the spring Prada show on Thursday night seemed literally a Valentine to women. But it was also a dazzling example of how to breathe modernity into cultural references--in this case, traditional Japanese style and architecture." {On The Runway/The New York Times}
• "Prada’s spring 2013 collection took Mad Men and amped the fashion quotient so high that no Hollywood stylist will touch it." {Speakeasy/The Wall Street Journal}
• "There was poetry to these clothes, but walking the runway in either towering Harajuku girl platforms or leather judo socks bound with patent leather bows--flats in both cases, Prada pointed out--the models exuded power too. Leave it to Miuccia to tweak nostalgia into something that felt modern and new." {Style.com}
• "A quiet, thoughtful take on the house codes and the designer’s delightfully wonky vision." {Vogue.com}
• "These were Geisha girls who had been exposed to some serious flower power." {Vogue.com UK}
• "Ultrachic, intelligent and wearable, too." {WWD}