Will Miuccia Prada ever get over her subversive tailoring, her suggestive sensuality and her surreal accessories?

Let's hope not!

For the designer (absent from her show because of a family bereavement), produced a splendid collection that was, as ever, a wink-of-an-eye ode to womanhood.

From bauble earrings through to prim mesh shoulder coverings down to pointed-toe shoes with a shiny ball for decoration, this is the Prada that everyone wants to see: modern tailoring with more twists than a snake's tail.

Dressed in a parody of workwear clothes, the models stepped out in precise jackets and tidy skirts, with colour and texture playing a powerful role.

The most sober of striped suits was offset by golden lips, gilded stripes and those dainty, pointed-toe shoes.

Prada had a transparency - figuratively and literally - to her message. A neat jacket would suddenly appear with a translucent skirt as though the sexual temptation of female legs was making a surreal appearance.

At the same time, a translucent raincoat or a silken dress were more regular elements of a woman's wardrobe.

Prada's ability to get under the skin or inside the head of the modern woman is uncanny. And that is why this exceptional designer is repeatedly leader of the fashion pack.