I'm disappointed, but not entirely surprised. Something in Raf Simons changed when he went to Calvin Klein. He didn't have to work as hard as he did at Dior and it showed in the work. There was a lack of taste and effort that he attempted to compensate with gimmicks, all whilst completely disregarding the dna of the house. Needless to say, it backfired. I'm getting that same sense of arrogance and nonchalance that we saw at CK. Prada at it's core is brand for grown women. Miuccia dominated the late 90's and 00's with her luxurious and thoughtful approach to fashion. It was so disgustingly chic that it was almost criminal. It was wearable, feminine, and beautiful. Never ironic just for the sake of it, nor ugly. That's the Prada we should have seen re-emerge on the runway. Instead we were only given the Prada that we saw in July at the mens show. This cold and lifeless minimalism that is not only irrelevant, but also out of date. No one is going to buy that collection, or this one. There are so many problems with both of them. For one thing, it's not a spring collection. The fabrics have no movement, they drag the models down. The proportions length will only work on 5'10 models and even they're drowning in them. The prints at the beggining are forgettable, nothing to else to say about those. Then we get into they typography. Honestly, who cares? I don't care about the meaning behind them. They were poorly incorporated into the collection. The rest of the prints were flat out ugly. The sweater and skirt outfits were decent, but we didn't need that many of them. The cut out's were an ode to that Dior couture collection and I couldn't stop thinking about that. Overall it was a repetitive and uninspired mess. Fashion should lift us up, not make us depressed. This is the worst Prada collection to date, and one of the worst of the year. What happened?
