Prada S/S 2009 Milan

[helmut.newton]

^^^^ That girls expression after she took the shoes off....priceless!!!

 

[FogUponLA]

haha I love that! Thanks for the pictures OhJane

 

[liberty33r1b]

i sincerely hope those shoes won't sell well....

 

[Muse_Views]

Big yes to your world of No!

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.

 

[Gábor]

omg i hate miucca.. i miss her older collections

 

[wheneveriwakeup]

I think the shoes are rly quite beautiful and sexy...
I am pretty sure they'll be re-designed for consumers though...
I do like the styling of the shoes w/ the socks, but it is not logical at all, obviously...
The cropped pieces with the black ribbons remind me Tao's work
and some of Rei's older collections...
I think this is a really nice collection for Prada..

 

[Ed..]

OUCH!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2PW_DQskHA
Thanks to FashionPower

 

[vogue28]

just how many models tumbled with them horrible shoes?

EDIT: seriously, that poor model in that video they looks realllyyyy painful

 

[dior_couture1245]

.....I'm SO sad that that happened with all the shoes. Now that's all anyone will ever care or talk about.

It's really unfortunate...because it distracted from the fantastic collection!

 

[Amywilliams]

Poor katie! The shoes really were ridiculous though...and agreed, this happening has really detracted from what a great collection this is..

 

[JuiceMajor]

awww...really few sorry for her! bless!!

 

[izzie stevens]

I just saw the Katie Fogarty stumble... that was so funny. Poor girl!

 

[educo]

Oh Hell No!!

 

[Spike413]

Honestly those shoes alone don't look any higher than the stuff that's been shown for years now. They're really not absurdly high like everyone's making them sound. I mean, YSL showed stilettos with high heels and platforms than that on a flowerbed runway and no one tumbled, so clearly it's not the height or shape of the shoes here that took the girls down. It was the little socks.

Here's an article from nytimes.com's The Moment Blog...

September 25th, 2008 12:18 PM

Fall Guys | Prada’s Precarious Platforms

By JONATHAN S. PAUL

MILAN — During fashion week, part of the drill for editors is attending so-called re-see appointments for an up-close inspection of the runway collections. Yesterday, T Magazine’s Milan team rolled up to the Prada command center, and soon we were holding the infamous superhigh platform sandals in our hands, the very ones responsible for Tuesday night’s parade of pratfalls that everybody is still talking about. What we discovered thanks to the easygoing P.R. girls is that the shoes didn’t act alone — it was likely the slippery black booties the models wore inside their sandals that ultimately did them in. The theory is that Miuccia’s high-fashion Peds, which close with a drawstring ribbon, were so silky that some models couldn’t keep their feet stable inside the shoes. (When you’re trying to walk in some of the highest heels out there, having butter feet doesn’t help the cause.) Bad news for personal injury lawyers: Prada is considering fusing the socks to the insoles to avoid further slip-ups when the shoes are produced commercially.

 

[izzie stevens]

^ See, that's what needs to be done... not making the heels lower as was said. The socks need to be fused to the insoles.

 

[spiceboy]

thos little socks are ridiculous

 

[bedtimestorynyc]

i think the shoes would look good without those damn booties - yuck!

 

[helmut.newton]

But without the socks, the shoes are just standard and sexy a la Dolce&Gabbana.

With the socks, it makes them PRADA. Because she's fusing weird with sexy. And thats Prada.

 

[4n98]

The shoes are TO DIE FOR.

 

[*ana*]

But without the socks, the shoes are just standard and sexy a la Dolce&Gabbana.

With the socks, it makes them PRADA. Because she's fusing weird with sexy. And thats Prada.

haha exactly.