Prada Mens F/W 10.11 Milan

[Crying Diamonds]

What a naff collection... Why is there so much womenswear? Is it's Miuccia's oh-so-ironic take on a menswear collection?
Such a dull collection when 09-10 was so good.

 

[vogue28]

The womenswear/Sigrid is what has made the show for me. Those cropped jumpers and cardigans are revolting.

 

[birdofparadise]

now, once your eyes adjust and this gets wrapped up with womenswear with two glossy ad campaigns and merchandized in those heavenly boutiques, fashion boys from hong kong to london, los angeles to paris, new york to dubai will snatch up these finds because it fits so well into the way that crowd dresses today. and it doesn't take a gay man to fit into those sweaters, for much of the rail thin crowd that follows fashion, this stuff will blend in seamlessly with their thom browne pants, dior homme jeans, their impossibly skinny tailored turnbull shirts, their band of outsiders' skinny ties, their lanvin short shorts....need i go on? hats off to miuccia for knowing her audience.

For me, it needed the set. I understand where you're going in terms of how things are digested once they're off the runway, whatever that means now in our digital age. But I think it was more than just championing her aesthetic, I think it was also about Fashion Memory, if such a thing exists. They way the collection was presented harkened back to the way Helmut showed or the three-looks-at-once Marc Jacobs also used to push. Things were presented in a codified way so that editors and buyers didn't have to do that much mental work, here's a proportion, here's a fabric, watch me work it in a few different ways, coat/sweater/vest, good/better/best.

But as with any kind of looking back, things get hazy, there's uncertainty and she put that through my boffing up the proportions, mixing up the fabrics and allowing an incomplete air to blow through, almost as if she's thinking about loud, 'did we do it this way or was it that way' ...

But with your comment I wondered if that is where the modernity is, the fact that one could possibly make such a project out of collection, put such work into it just to have it consumed in such a way by the ma$$es. Does frumpled fashion memory made tangible in the form of a shrunken sweater vest become something else, something new once it blends in seamlessly "with their thom browne pants, dior homme jeans" and so on and so forth ...

 

[Monsieur M]

Iwas wondering... what was Raf about to do at the front row at Prada? He has probably enough work with his own collection at the moment I suppose...
Any tricks behind this act? Any intrigues? Maybe we should expect Prada menswear by Raf Simons for spring 2011...

 

[gossiping]

hopefully its just another designer going to someones elses show

 

[marus]

I think the whole collection is too normal. Easy to carry, but not too outstanding for this season.

 

[mikeijames]

Iwas wondering... what was Raf about to do at the front row at Prada? He has probably enough work with his own collection at the moment I suppose...
Any tricks behind this act? Any intrigues? Maybe we should expect Prada menswear by Raf Simons for spring 2011...

first, it's his old boss: the prada group did own jil sander for a time. also, it's not the first time another designer has sat front row. miuccia prada also had marc jacobs in her audience not too long ago. no matter what one thinks about this particular collection, one cannot discount her talent nor her ability to build an empire....

style.com

 

[VogueParisLover]

The menswear is good, but I really like the womenswear.

 

[pigleto972001]

i loved some of those knitted sweaters! i wonder if the girls were wearing the men's sweaters, or if miuccia made them for women separately. whichever, i want one

 

[Lizzy.P]

Want to see this collection in HQ

here u can see all HQ : [URL="here"]http://www.coutorture.com/7078628[/URL]
sorry but I don't have time to post all images

 

[Thefrenchy]

I quite like it but I hate the prints and I'm not a fan of the whole, as Berlinrocks would say, "your cardi spent too much time in the dry machine" thing....

 

[juanpyx]

In Style.com actually confirms that the women part of the show is the pre-fall collection.

 

[LP640]

Ugly, but expected.

Hate Prada.

 

[BerlinRocks]

Watch the show (damn you can't b drunk bfore a Prada show, as a model. how can you remember which path you have to follow ?! doh)

It's actually very 70s Harvard 1st year student winter holidays homecoming .....
Too short or too long outfits .... I don't care, I study !

 

[mackos]

damn you can't b drunk bfore a Prada show, as a model. how can you remember which path you have to follow ?! doh

Lol, so true! I'm always full of admiration for the Prada models they don't get lost

 

[fashionismydrug]

I honestly dislike this collection. The shrunken sweaters are waaay to effeminate. Actually they just look like a mistake. Like the samples came back from the factory all wrong and Ms. Prada was just like "whatever I'll roll with it"

The womenswear looks had some promise. I really like the pink oversize sweater. I was just not expecting to see womenswear, so by the 4th womens look I was over it.

Finally, if the majority of the discussion about the show is about how great the soundtrack was and not about the clothes then I think it's safe to say this collection was a miss.

 

[disco54]

I think its quite good , prada always does the unexpected . Its very late 60s really early 70s , 1968-1971 collegiate clothing. Those prints on the womens clothing is just hideous though lol.

 

[afterrhours]

Iwas wondering... what was Raf about to do at the front row at Prada? He has probably enough work with his own collection at the moment I suppose...
Any tricks behind this act? Any intrigues? Maybe we should expect Prada menswear by Raf Simons for spring 2011...

it looks like he's wearing a prada blazer from fall 09

 

[sobigsobig]

I think these clothes I will buy single items,
like buying other brands of the same
(Double collar and men stomachers yes Prada patent)

 

[nqth]

it's so bizzare that a GQ style editor didn't know who is Raf Simons.