Since then, the company has acquired Jil Sander, Helmut Lang and shoemaker Church & Co.[4][5][6] In 2002, Prada opened her own contemporary art museum.

[10] Born Maria Bianchi[11] on 10 May 1949 in Milan, she took the name Miuccia Prada in the 1980s, after being adopted by an aunt.

[14] She was a member of the Italian Communist Party and was involved in the women's rights movement during the seventies in Milan.

By the mid-Seventies,[15] Prada entered into her family's business of manufacturing luxury leather bags, a company established by her grandfather in 1913.

The design house has grown into a conglomerate that includes labels such as Helmut Lang, Jil Sander, and Azzedine Alaïa.

The company has expanded into leather goods, shoes, fragrances, and apparel for both men and women.

[18] In 2020, Prada presented her final collection as the brand's sole creative director; because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was unveiled in a sequence of short films directed by artists including Martine Syms and Juergen Teller.

"[14] Along with designer Elsa Schiaparelli, Prada was the subject of the 2012 exhibition, "Impossible Conversations" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[29] In early 2014, Prada and Patrizio Bertelli were put under investigation as part of a tax avoidance probe by Milan prosecutors.