Prada’s transgressive SS 1996 collection, now widely dubbed the “ugly chic” collection, featured eccentric, retro cuts rendered in an odd palette of mud brown, acid green, and orange, which were at times incorporated into tweed.

Aptly titled “Banal Eccentricity”, the collection’s unapologetic fusion of the unremarkable and undesirable yielded a radical yet compelling proposition of highly wearable pieces, cementing the Italian house’s reputation for shifting contemporary tastes and notions of beauty.

The collection’s brightly-colored tweed motifs were executed in different ways: more traditionally through the use of actual tweed fabrics, and then more unconventionally through printing crosshatched tweed patterns onto technical textiles and knits, as seen on this short-sleeve crew-neck knit top.

A purple tweed pattern is printed directly onto a near-weightless off-white mohair-wool knit fabric, granting the illusion of hefty tweed fabric onto a lightweight knit tee.