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For Spring Summer 2021, the Prada Linea Rossa campaign reinvents the brand’s iconic ‘red line’ as the demarcations of spaces designated for sport, universal markers recognised in communities around the world. Skate parks across the diverse terrains of Los Angeles, USA and Shanghai, China are united through these delineations – marking out new territories and spaces for activity, for unity within communities.

Filmed and photographed in action by the Los Angeles-based visual artist Martine Syms, the unique talents chosen to front the campaign epitomize excellence – each with a tie, directly, to the sport of skating or BMX riding, and to the urban topographies that feature in the Linea Rossa campaign. Cai Xu Kun is a world-famous Chinese singer-songwriter and record producer, whose multiple skills also include the sport of rollerblading. Briana King is a skateboarder, model, and community organizer from East Los Angeles. She is well-known for organizing and touring girl and queer skateboarding meet-ups around the world. Rachelle Vinberg is a passionate actor and skateboarder, who roled in the 2018 film Skate Kitchen and a subsequent HBO TV series Betty, both based on her real-life experiences as part of a female skate crew. Austin Augie is a photographer and award-winning professional BMX rider, with over half a million subscribers on YouTube. Le’Andre Sanders, a talented local Los Angelean skateboarder, plays a cameo role.