Overview
- Prada Mode’s 14th edition, called Satellites II, transformed New York’s Hotel Chelsea in early June into a site-specific takeover curated by Nicolas Winding Refn and Hideo Kojima.
- The project treated the building as a live studio by installing micro-television sets in guest rooms and beaming a bespoke Prada Mode Channel into every in-room TV while also making that channel viewable remotely.
- Physical interventions extended beyond the hotel with reflective silver-painted taxis, mystery vending machines inside the Chelsea, and a party that converted Katz’s Delicatessen into a late-night dance floor.
- A program of talks, screenings and performances featured participants including Sophie Thatcher, Lydia Lunch, Precious Renee Tucker, Grandmaster Flash and guests such as Amanda Gorman and Abel Ferrara.
- Satellites II continues Prada Mode’s itinerant private-club model launched in 2018 and shows how the brand is using broadcast formats and city interventions to widen access to a traditionally members-only cultural program.