Prada

Spring/Summer 2012Ready-To-WearMilan


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IT could be tempting to be cynical about a Prada show – to go in with the attitude that of course everybody will love it, just because it’s Prada. But every season Miuccia takes a new turn and, every season, we go with her.

This time we walked into the usual Milanese venue to find it had been turned into a huge parking lot complete with cartoon Styrofoam cars for us to sit on. And just like that, just like last summer’s bananas and monkeys, Prada presented us with another motif that we’d never have considered before and yet now consider a must-have.

Cars – cartoon ones printed onto white shirts like they would be on a young boy’s bedroom curtains, or appliquéd onto dark green or brown pencil skirts with Thunderbird flames of exhaust bursting out behind them.

Unbelievable, maybe, but desirable – definitely. The heels (which also had ornate flames shooting out from them), clip clipped along the catwalk echoed by the same footsteps on the soundtrack. It could have been spooky but we were far too distracted by the clothes to imagine the model was alone in a car park. The moment we saw them, we knew that they’ll become the iconic pieces of next season – clothes that we’ll immediately be able to place as spring/summer 2012. You always know it’s a good show when that happens.

So – grey felt coats, slightly bulging at the back, with appliqué flowers all over the front in blue and cream or in orange and green; stiff, knife-pleated skirts worn to the knee where flames of exhaust begin to ride up their pale pink broderie anglaise; cotton tube tops worn over pencil skirts featuring the matching car print and leaving the stomach completely bare; cotton house coats in pale blue with lapels in a contrasting print; elastic waisted dresses that were gathered above and below in swirls of pink, black and mint or simply green and vanilla – as if the exhaust fumes were cooling down – then they came full skirted and long sleeved and smocked over the waist band.

There were Fifties-style swimsuits in layered up plum satin, red lamé and black satin to bring exaggerated shape to the bust, and then pale gold satin jackets that were embellished with rhinestones at the shoulder featured more cars on the back as if the Pink Ladies have turned tom boy.

If a good collection means a new idea perfectly executed, then Miuccia Prada comes top of the class. If you’re in any doubt that this woman could have you carrying a Fifties-style brown leather handbag with a car emblazoned on it next summer – remember this is the woman who put bananas on Anna Wintour’s skirt last time around. You better believe it.

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  1. prada has to be my fav MFW show

    twinkledammy
    24 Sep 2011
  2. I have never seen such overated rubbish as Prada`s current Spring/summer collection. She`s fooled you all! The real talent of the moment is katranzou!!!!Marie

    marie lisette
    24 Sep 2011
  3. I don't understand season after season Prada comes up with such frumpy dresses that can make any young girl like me look mother of two kids..so overrated and her Miu Miu line...don't get me started..

    Ria
    12 Nov 2011

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