MILAN—Prada flew more than 100 of its best customers here for this city’s storied Fashion Week, giving them private access to Leonardo da Vinci’s “Last Supper” and dinners at restaurants booked out just for them. Some watched models carry crocodile handbags—revived from a 1920s design and finished with clasps featuring onyx—down the runway at Prada’s womenswear show last week. The bags were offered exclusively to top clients the next day for a little over $20,000. Their visit also included a tour of Prada ’s newly renovated complex in Milan’s Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, where tucked above the public store and…

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