.Prada spring/summer 2014 collection tops Design of the Year 2014 fashion ...

Miuccia Prada's trend-setting spring/summer 2014 catwalk collection has pipped Dior designer Rick Owens to the post in the Design Museum's shortlist

BY Olivia Bergin | 24 April 2014

Photo: SEAN CUNNINGHAM

Miuccia Prada's punchy and primary-coloured Pop-Art spring/summer 2014 collection has been named the winner of the Fashion category in the Design Museum's annual Designs of the Year Awards.

The collection, which comprised of sporty dresses adorned with sequins, fur coats decorated with women's faces and embellished, Teva-style sandals beat off competition from Raf Simons, the Dior creative director who was nominated twice: firstly for his debut collection for the French fashion house, and additionally for his eponymous label's spring 2014 range.

SEE: Prada spring/summer 2014 collection

Other nominees in the category included Sadie Williams's collection of 3-D, embossed dresses; Tracey Neuls 'Bike Geek', a dressy shoe-meets-performance sportswear hybrid; Brazilian designer Ronaldo Fraga's Hinterland collection and DAS Collection's update on the face-, feet- and hand-covering abaya.

The annual awards also includes categories for architecture, furniture, graphic, product and transport design, with the overall winner set to be announced on June 30. All of the 69 nominated designs are on display in the Design Museum until August 30 and visitors can vote for their favourite.

Last year the GOV.UK website took the Design of the Year prize, while fashion category was topped by the insightful documentary 'Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel', about the late, visionary editor of US Vogue and Harper's Bazaar.

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