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Miuccia Prada

Italian fashion designer and entrepreneur (born 1948)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 10, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Miuccia Bianchi Prada is an Italian billionaire fashion designer and businesswoman. She is the head designer of Prada and the founder of its subsidiary Miu Miu. As of October 2021, Forbes estimated her net worth at US$4.8 billion. In August 2021, Bloomberg estimated her net worth to be $6.6 billion, ranking 430th in the world.

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The public source identifies “Miuccia Prada” as italian fashion designer and entrepreneur (born 1948). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Miuccia, Prada and Italian.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Miuccia, Prada and Italian providing the first useful test.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 10, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “Miuccia Prada” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.