During Paris Fashion Week , Miuccia Prada sent her models out onto the Miu Miu catwalk clad in a disarming array of aprons: blue workwear, kinky black leather, bejewelled bibs, a selection of dowdy frills and florals fit for Mrs Overall herself. Sandra Hüller looked ready for carpentry, Richard E Grant for some light smelting or fish gutting.

An accompanying press note declared the collection a “consideration of the work of women”, with the apron – “simultaneously utilitarian and decorative” – an apt emblem of industrial and domestic labour. The background inspiration was Women at Work , a recently published book by the German photographer Helga Paris, whose candid 1984 portraits of women taken in East Berlin’s state-owned Treff-Modelle Clothing Factory captured life on the garment

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