Dario Vitale - Designer

[TianCouture]

Miuccia looks so chic in that photo. Why can't Prada collections be like this?

Frankly, she looks like a clown. Which is kind of on brand.

 

[PDFSD]

Frankly, she looks like a clown. Which is kind of on brand.

how can she look (dress) like a clown when she literally has very classic old fashioned things on even her jewelry is antique. evn the coat as cape sleeves is not a new invention if you know costume history .

 

[Snejana Onopka]

Prefall 2015 which was an exercise on nylon was particularly great.

off topic... kinda embarrassed to admit that this collection made me chop my hair to a modcut a la liam gallagher and thrift 60s style coats lol

 

[visvim2001]

Has the brand that much of an aura ? To interest Hedi I mean ?

My perception was that is was a decaying brand, at least for the last 15 years, I have never bought into the cult of Donatella, not as a personality nor as a designer, she had terrible shows (La vacanza 2023) and imho Versace was the top of a very small pyramid, with Cavalli, Blumarine and Plein somewhere at the base.
The perfume licence agreement with EuroItalia is trash, the Versace perfumes are the cheapest of the cheapest at the duty free.

Loud, blinged out luxury is actually quite a crowded space. Which is something that I’ve come to realise only recently, walking around high street and fancy stores…

Not to say that these brands are carbon copies of each other, but Versace directly competes with D&G and Balmain/Gucci/Casablanca to a lesser extent in ostentatious RTW, and perhaps even Plein/Dsquared/Zanotti in the accessories category and general taste level. Stefano Ricci also puts out some shocking stuff even though there’s probably not a lot of customer overlap. Sales are declining because there’s only so many people chasing such an aesthetic and while a household name, ‘decaying’ is certainly the right word for Versace’s influence.

You know which demographic the house currently appeals to but I’m not gonna name them lol.

 

[yslforever]

But the enshittiffication has already started :


As a reminder the total cost of a seamstress (wage, social contributions, other manufacturing plant cost ) is around 38€/hour in France and 27€ in Italy but it’s already too damn high for Prada Group with 950 € basic jeans and 1400€ polo shirts at 1400. And their 2€ by meter nylon.

Plus there is this ongoing investigation on Chinese slaves in their Prato subcontractors.

They reached the point where Inditex has more traceability than them.

I hope the new CD will have a little bit of ethics or a hint of concern for the quality of the products under his name.
But as far as I concerned, I don’t care and will ignore the group and their brands.