Amanda Murphy blazed the Prada runway for fall/winter 2026 in Milan, stepping once again into a space that has long felt like home. At 39, the American model cuts a striking figure: all long lines and quiet intensity, her beauty unmistakably Prada.
Intellectual, slightly severe and utterly self-possessed, she carries the kind of presence that does not shout for attention yet holds a room completely. It is the very image of Miuccia Prada’s woman—composed, thoughtful and quietly powerful.
For Murphy, this return feels almost cyclical. She first became one of Prada’s defining faces in 2013, opening and closing the show in a look that distilled the house’s particular alchemy: a slanted black dress scattered with inky embellishment, layered over a grey knit and grounded by chunky leather sandals. Since then, she has come to embody the quiet composed elegance that Prada has long championed, with a particular brand of duality.
Among the most lauded in the industry, Murphy moves between worlds with ease: a trained radiologist inspired by her mother, an ICU nurse in the medical field, an accomplished equestrian and a runway presence whose calm precision has secured her place among the top 50 models in the industry.
Raised in Illinois and scouted by the legendary IMG Models at 21, she arrived in fashion at a moment when Prada was reshaping the language of beauty. Almost 13 years on, this element still feels completely at home.
Seen through the lens of this season’s fashion-forward mood, Murphy feels entirely in her element. She appears in Vogue Singapore’s March digital cover spread wearing pieces from Prada’s spring/summer 2026 collection, where past and future collide through signature wit. Unexpected colour clashes, sculptural silhouettes and playful distortions of proportion give the spread a charged sense of time folding in on itself—a sense of looking backward only to leap forward.
Photography Arseny Jabiev
Styling Coke Ho
Hair Junya Nakashima
Make-up Kuma
Manicure Mamie Onishi
Set design Lane Vineyard
Producers David Bay and Jean Jarvis
Casting Jill Demling
Photographer’s assistant Kyle Thompson and Muhammet Gencoglu
Stylist’s assistants Itsuka Watanabe, Kristin Zhu and Yayi Tan
Set assistant Gabrielle Arriaga
Production assistant Devon Jarvis
