Prada S/S 08 Milan

[unipine]

I keep coming back to reevaluate and finding certain ideas that I actually really like. This is tough.

 

[Bidwell]

Esquire:

"Prada have tons of money and a super power advertising behind it, so you will see it so much that you will surely ending up get used to it"

Ridiculous.
Armani or Cavalli has the same amount of ad power and there's NOTHING that would make me appreciate what they have done or ever will do.
Either you appreciate it or you don't. That's why there's lots of choice in fashion. If you are persuaded so easily by campaigns and brand status that is really an individual's choice.
By the way, a young unknown designer wouldn't be able to afford pieces like this and on this scale. It's extremely expensive to cut and sew asymmetric models or placed prints...
Besides, the point is that it isn't an upstart designer but an old established luxury house that is doing something artistic and different. You want tasteful classic clothes, go to Bottega Veneta.
I'll be the first to admit there are always dubious elements in the Prada lineup, but at least IT'S INTERESTING. Sort it out, there are always the most beautiful products in the store season after season. If you don't believe that then it is a matter of taste.

I quite like the idea of a pretty girl in something possibly clashing and difficult. It's more interesting at that age. There's plenty of time to wear Ferragamo when one is retired...

I also don't believe there is anything overtly intellectual here either. It's just a mood. A great one at that. You can count on seeing those colours and organic prints for Fall 2008.

 

[Honeysuckle]

Well-said!

 

[tricotineacetat]

I am sorry, but just to throw your own concepts away season after season for the sake of being 'ahead of the pack' is not a particularly valid approach to me personally. it's one thing to aim for innvation, but the way this collection turned out is everything *but* innovative. it's painfully retro-sixties/seventies and at that, executed in a very bad-taste manner.

I am feeling kinda alienated by clothes like these, mostly due to the fact that I don't really see people wearing that sort of stuff in a way that is not ironic, not in a 'forced' way. It's basically fashion for the sake of fashion, not for the person wearing it.

 

[esquire]

Esquire:

Ridiculous.
Armani or Cavalli has the same amount of ad power and there's NOTHING that would make me appreciate what they have done or ever will do.
Either you appreciate it or you don't. That's why there's lots of choice in fashion. If you are persuaded so easily by campaigns and brand status that is really an individual's choice.
By the way, a young unknown designer wouldn't be able to afford pieces like this and on this scale. It's extremely expensive to cut and sew asymmetric models or placed prints...
Besides, the point is that it isn't an upstart designer but an old established luxury house that is doing something artistic and different. You want tasteful classic clothes, go to Bottega Veneta.
I'll be the first to admit there are always dubious elements in the Prada lineup, but at least IT'S INTERESTING. Sort it out, there are always the most beautiful products in the store season after season. If you don't believe that then it is a matter of taste.

I quite like the idea of a pretty girl in something possibly clashing and difficult. It's more interesting at that age. There's plenty of time to wear Ferragamo when one is retired...

I also don't believe there is anything overtly intellectual here either. It's just a mood. A great one at that. You can count on seeing those colours and organic prints for Fall 2008.

Hi Bidwell

I respect your thoughts, its def a matter or taste... PRADA IMO is still a very well manufactured over hyped crap... young girls on this pajamas trousers will look ridiculous, and as all the Prada's costumers likes to say "ITS PRADA" meaning " it's $$$$$" on the back of my mind I still will hear "Its TACKY"....

I'm Italian , perhaps the South will love this as they love anything bourgeois oriented , but the North will keep on with Veneta & Ferragamo, thats is for sure.

Prada lost it sense of elegance.

 

[ApertureRomance]

You just know a journalist somewhere is going to tag this collection 'dark side of the moon.'

 

[Bidwell]

Hello, Esquire.
Well, I guess we agree to disagree at least.
I lived in Milan for many years and always found Prada to be THE ANTI-BOURGEOIS luxury label whereas Ferragamo,Veneta and most every other Italian label to be the epitome of status dressing. Miuccia used to parade for the communist party after all.
The workmanship and innovation that goes into its products is unparalleled on a mass scale. One just has to visit the galleria shop to understand this. The runway, like for everyone, is a stage for experimentation but doesn't always reflect what is actually sold.

 

[ApertureRomance]

Spats !

style.com

Something I've been wondering about is the presentation and styling because I feel that this collection in particular many of the pieces just wouldn't work if worn with others but I think maybe that is just the overbearing , foreboding colour scheme. What do people think ?

 

[Gypsy_Doll]

Adorable shoes. Nice makeup...
Everything else reminds me of the Wizard of oz

 

[PinkVanilla.]

Clearly, this must be just a trow of something, somewhere ... i think that Miuccia just tryed to keep the brand alive trough the season. It`s hideous ,more or less. It`s the type of collection where you love or hate, no middle part. I sure expected more, but its just fashion, we don't like it, we move on. Though we should take it a classic, i feel the ideea but it`s just so wrong ... disappointment

 

[rouge_red]

I have no idea why - but I adore it!

 

[liberty33r1b]

I keep coming back to reevaluate and finding certain ideas that I actually really like. This is tough.

exactly. so far i haven't found one single outfit/piece i really really love.....

 

[leggy_e11e]

I LOVE IT!!!

 

[birdofparadise]

Best in show (and without a split side seam or knickers showing anywhere) Nice to see Isabeli as well...loooove the drawings and overall feel of the show, art school girl all grown up

 

[satin chic]

I quite like the rounded necklines, but overall I'm not feeling this collection. I feel like always being ahead of the other designers, no matter for what price (the price of wearability in this case, among others), is just not working anymore for Prada.

 

[DuTTyRoCK112]

Man, I swear some of these models have the nastiest feet.

Love the bags, hate the shoes with the really ride toe openings... very unflattering to show off that much toe IMO.

The makeup is phenomenal. I've been back to this thread almost 10 times and I still find anything pajama-y ghastly and tacky. The knit pieces as well as some of the transparent and pyschedlic-print pieces have really grown on me though.

 

[Zazie]

Oooh, I haven't liked Prada for a while, but her last season and this one nailed it! This time, the quirkiness and "weirdness" really seems effortless as if it sprang from a reverie, not contrived ("artsy"....ugh) and forced as usual. It is also a coherent collection, bar some awful cardigans and shoes. She is never original or experimental in her cut, but the colours, shapes, proportions and layers are interesting and makes you want to look at the outfits again and again. It is also not as easily defined this time - not futuristic, mod, retro, boho, etc., but a bit of everything and not exactly anything, but very 'Prada"! And thankfully, this time, one doesn't have to "read" anything into it to probe some intellectual depth - the pieces are pretty but in an odd way, no frills!!! and that's good enough for me!

 

[sarah13]

She seems so focused on NOT doing what she has done before that her collections often seem to have not overall intention or thought of the person wearing them. I am getting kind of bored with all this different for the sake of different collection.

 

[Scott]

I am sorry, but just to throw your own concepts away season after season for the sake of being 'ahead of the pack' is not a particularly valid approach to me personally. it's one thing to aim for innvation, but the way this collection turned out is everything *but* innovative. it's painfully retro-sixties/seventies and at that, executed in a very bad-taste manner.

I am feeling kinda alienated by clothes like these, mostly due to the fact that I don't really see people wearing that sort of stuff in a way that is not ironic, not in a 'forced' way. It's basically fashion for the sake of fashion, not for the person wearing it.

i was just about to say something similar to your first sentiment...

i hope she doesn't think she's being innovative or that she's arrogantly thinking she's inventing something new or the slightest,fresh. because we've seen this already....this sort of fantasy look....but much better at that. just look at the fairy-tale thread on trends,and one will see will see my point. not to mention,as i always see in her collections,these surreal figure patchworks look suspiciously like rip-off's of tsumori chisato and the work julie verhoeven.

 

[Zazie]

What's wrong with wanting to do something new season after season? I respect her for it, to capture the changing moods and making an effort. It's much better than Galliano throwing out the same dresses, frocks and make-up time after time after time, rtw or couture. Or like Marc Jacobs blatantly copying ideas from others. She does what she wants to do, and she takes big risks. Her husband, though, exemplifies everything we hate about Prada.