Experiment in transformation is at play. Individualities are embodied by one individual: the actor Carey Mulligan, whose craft centers around the notion of reinvention, of encapsulating an other. To act is both to perform, and simply to behave - act as action, a way of living. Captured by Steven Meisel in a series of arresting portraits, Mulligan appears again and again, never the same and never herself - each guise is an entirely different individual, inventing a multitude of protagonists, different lives, each entirely separate, unpredictable, and unique. Yet each can be seen as a provoking distinct viewpoint on the ideology of Prada, a fragmented manifestation of its philosophy and ever-shifting surprising aesthetic, like sides of its character. In a direct reference to the Fall/Winter 2021 Feels like Prada campaign, Acts Like Prada serves as a mantra that acknowledges the performative nature of Prada as an idea.