Prada S/S 2009 Milan

[cavanaugh]

i really love the whole look, i wish there was something to offset it, the presentation is kind of missing the classic prada ugly factor, the shoes are really great

 

[colourmefashion]

some of the shoes are great, but the clothes on the other hand.

 

[*ana*]

I don't hate it and I don't love it, but I am head over heels for those white crumpled cotton numbers...they remind me of an agressively hot wedding night or a runaway bride ending up getting boozed at some truckstop. Very erotic...Her shows have always had some ammount of perversion or eroticism but mostly it's subtle or almost invisible. With last season being an introduction to a less subtle eroticism, this is pretty much in your face, but still under control and not over the top. Nice direction, I think....

In a way, Miuccia strikes me as the type of creative person who would rather have people hate what she does than just "like" it, you know? She seems like the type who wants to elicit a strong reaction one way or another, rather than just doing something nice and pleasant.

I can't fault it for that though, because it's really stuff that she always comes back to, after all of the fairies, feathers and faux fur, she always ends up going back to the whole proper and ladylike/sexually frustrated and oddball dichotomy with weird fabrications and frumpy proportions. That's the real Prada.

i feel the same way Mr-Dale, and i agree with Spike413, although i must admit this collection wasn't a love at first sight like other recent ones. i don't like most of the prints, except the snakeskin, and i'm not sure about the gold, but i love the see-trough pieces and some looks like the one on hanne gaby odiele. the shoes and the bags are very nice too. it's just really interesting, i'm not going crazy about it like i ususally do but i'm gonna look at it again and again.

 

[LolaSvelt]

I'm not really a fan. Just not my type.

 

[disco54]

this is boring her s/s 2008 was awesome this looks like a skanky mom who went to copacabana in 1947 .

 

[Destined]

this is boring her s/s 2008 was awesome this looks like a skanky mom who went to copacabana in 1947 .

I liked ss08 too, and I couldn't really like this one, but you just described a reason I cant get it, its like these clothes are so all over the place, I don't get it.

the skanky mom also got attacked by some gold renold's wrap.

 

[dior_couture1245]

this looks like a skanky mom who went to copacabana in 1947 .

And that's exactly why I LOVE it!

 

[helmut.newton]

This is no doubt one of the most interesting collections to come from Prada.

It's pretty genius in the way its making fun of the conservative way in which people dress. The skirts which revealed the leg, the bra-tops - its all trying to open our minds to a new kind of liberated dressing.

Obviously, it's going to be watered down for the shops - so the most avant-garde pieces are just to add to the runway aesthetic.

 

[Spike413]

^ With Prada all of the pieces usuaully wind up in stores. Those feathered, puckered, and plastic sequined pieces from f/w 07 were produced, and they were a hell of a lot more weird than anything shown in this collection.

Prada is in the same vein as Marc Jacobs that way, the look is so heavily styled that you can't imagine how it could be wearable, but when you break all of the pieces up and put them on separate racks with lots of basic showroom pieces in between, it's not as alienating as it looks on the runway.

 

[Fashionturnip]

How great is this??

Messy + sexy, glossy skin, cute chignons. V nice.

But why put something down the runway if you are going to chicken out & not give the customer the opportunity to buy it?? I think that is cheating...you designed it, thats how you envisaged it, your catwalk is how you are appealing to your customers----but your not going to give them the chance to buy it?? Its like dangling a carrot.

If you made the shoes & sent them down the runway...dont chicken out & change them! take away the weird little socks and voila--no problem, surely?

 

[Deleted member 103203]

Style.com has never written a bad review about Prada, as far as i could remember.

WWD.

Oh, the fashion flip-flop, and we don't mean shower shoes. "The idea was to move away from all the fussy, couture-derived fashion that I think has become too heavy and overexploited," Muccia Prada said, with near disdain, before her show. Explioted? Wasn't Prada herself fall's primary proponent of haute-y chic, with those glorious laces worked into chichi power clothes?
Nevertheless, for spring Prada went, in her words, primitive and archaic yet sophisticated. And if the result didnt rise to the level of her most stunning collections, it offered ample evidence of her ongoing mastery of the finely honed idea. She started with a retro sexy secretary silhouette cut from structured, well-rumpled fabrics (a cotton-metal weave) and added lots of beribboned drawstring parachute action. It looked as if the "Mad Men" gals were getting a little something on the side from Mad Max (and maybe Ton Sur Ton). Thus, lady suits were de-ladified, bras exposed, fanny wraps tied on, while a picnic twinset got cropped to naughty heights over a thigh-baring, bunched-up fish-print skirt. And Prada gave a new wrinkle (make that wrinkles) to the endless dress craze in terrific casual shifts cut asymmetrically to slip off the shoulder or draw attention to one breast.
As for the accessories, it was all about the shoes, and not in a good way. The mile-high platforms strapped on over what appeared to be Prada's take on Peds might have been impressive, had half of the girls not had major trouble walking and thus looked absolutely petrified. At least one fell (the meandering stage set didnt allow for full viewing), and one bailed on the finale. Folks, more sculptural, higher, chunkier, clunkier, strappier, bondage-ier - we get it. But maybe it's time to cry uncle and downgrade to shoes that function a shoes, even on the runway. First, that oh-God-I'm-a-mom-dont-let-the-poor-girl-fall anxiety becomes a huge distraction for the audience. Second, a fashion show is still supposed to have some commercial tie-in, however abstract or theoretical. What does it say if the girls paid to walk in the shoes can't walk in the shoes?

 

[Merveille]

Prada has definitely just entered into one of my most overrated brands.
Miuccia sends models down the runway with ridiculous shoes that they cant even walk in, crinkle up some white cotton (though I am sure it is a super lux expensive cotton since that is always most important) and stuff it into a pair of shorts and make it look like a diaper then drape a white sheet over a models shoulders, wrap a belt around it and add a tissue paper bra on top and it is considered fashion forward.....

 

[bedtimestorynyc]

LOL every single girl that walked looked like she had a spike up their *** trying not to fall and stuff!!!

 

[withapearl]

It's always pleasure to appreciate miuccia's creativity. She is always trying to make a new trend and find new materials. that's a lovely attitude indeed.

 

[smurfling]

Hm, I can't say I'm a fan of this collection.

I do like the shoes, though.

 

[karina_zb]

but all in all, i loved it more than i hated it

it looks like not many people agree with what i thought of the runway... because quite frankly, i HATED the white crumpled fabric, though i did like the gold dresses in the same crumpled way. the snakeskin print i neither loved nor hated, which i'd have thought i would have a stronger reaction to, really. the shoes, i fell in love with, and again we're seeing a lot of bare midriffs which i am going to be all for by spring after some holiday dieting also, if i were taller, i would love to be able to wear below-the-knee skirts

 

[annavtree]

While I usually love Prada's intellectual approach to fashion and to the idea of dressing, and while certain parts of the collection are very interesting to me, I hate those shoes with the passionate intensity of a thousand suns.

The shoes have this strange rock and roll meets luxe meets sadism thing going on that I am not a fan of. And I think part of the problem with walking in them is really the way that the sole curves up.

The clothes have the traditional Madonna/wh*re dichotomy thing Prada can't let go of. And I usually enjoying watching that exploration but those shoes are just...no. World of no.

 

[jenah]

liked a few pieces...
but it was all over the place!
hated ittt!

 

[Navygreen]

Miuccia is f____ing with us

 

[OhJane]

lol at them all scrambling to get the shoes off asap

obviously the strap isn't going to stay up. poor girls.
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