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The sidewalk outside The Hotel Chelsea is packed with people on the perfect spring morning of Wednesday, June 3. Producers clad in all black, PR people with perfectly straightened hair, and a number of besuited men and women speaking fluent Italian milled about, all sporting @prada lanyards. “Oooh, is there a celebrity in there?” one passerby jokes as she attempts to forge a path through the scrum. She’s close; in fact there are several celebrities “in there,” all gathered for the fourteenth iteration of Prada Mode, the cultural event series put on by the luxury house, which will be open to the public through Sunday, June 7. This year’s version is entirely New York, with a home base at the hotel and various satellite locations across the city, including Katz’s Delicatessen and the Angelika Film Center. To carry on their legacy of engaging with culture, Prada tapped game creator @hideo_kojima and filmmaker @nwrefn, two friends who, because of a language barrier, only communicate through images, film, and music. The pair turned the historic Hotel Chelsea into their brain palace, crafting a futuristic, silver-draped landscape that reflects the conversations between them, as well as their optimism for the future. ✍🏻 @landsbaumshell
