Prada AW 2007 Milan

[nqth]

Colours:-), carpet and the YSLesque socks:-)))

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[nqth]

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hats

[nqth]

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[laika]

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What do you think of it, ngth? It's surprisingly similar to the mens!

Seems like a return to form for her--ugly, in that distinctly Prada way. I like the mohair hat.

[Faust]

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no comment. i've bashed her enough, and don't want to sound like a broken record.

[nqth]

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I like it. Bright colours with blk and beige,grey. Geometric cuts and stiff fabrics (leather?). The stiffness is in the Burberry, too. Quirky, ugly and wearable, very Prada:-D

[Johnny]

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I like this too, very much actually. I love the fugliness of it, the unflattering (but somehow quite sexy) tights and odd proportions. Like the furry gilet with orange ribbing at the bottom. It's interesting how she'd done a female version of the menswear, although i think this works much better as womenswear (and therefore suspect that it was worked the other way around - i.e. the menswear show is a menswear version of this). It is of course something that Watanabe has been doing for a while now (although I think with him, it has come from menswear first through to womenswear, which fits in with the "comme des garcons" fundamental ethic).

Faust, i know you don't like her and Prada generally, but why don't you like this? (genuinely interested). Do you see any merit in it at all?

[Faust]

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[quote user="Johnny"]

I like this too, very much actually. I love the fugliness of it, the unflattering (but somehow quite sexy) tights and odd proportions. Like the furry gilet with orange ribbing at the bottom. It's interesting how she'd done a female version of the menswear, although i think this works much better as womenswear (and therefore suspect that it was worked the other way around - i.e. the menswear show is a menswear version of this). It is of course something that Watanabe has been doing for a while now (although I think with him, it has come from menswear first through to womenswear, which fits in with the "comme des garcons" fundamental ethic).

Faust, i know you don't like her and Prada generally, but why don't you like this? (genuinely interested). Do you see any merit in it at all?

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I hate it exactly for the reasons you like it :-) The colors don't work together, those furry things are ugly, the proportions are awkward.

[laika]

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lol, I think Faust just doesn't like ugly, which this certainly is.

I like it too though, for many of the same reasons that Johnny and ngth do. I must say, after looking at the whole collection, I think the clothes make the models look rather mean--like toxic schoolgirls....

I love that she made the menswear and womenswear continuous. Her collections haven't popped to me in a long time, and I think the apparent focus helped a lot. It also helps that MJ has abandoned the ugly and the awkward for YSL-ish elegance and going to the gym--reminds me that Miuccia is intellectually miles ahead of him. I'm actually looking forward to Miu Miu, for the first time in ages.

[nqth]

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I love ugly, it is like raw edges. A lot of ppl do it, but few do it right.

If I see it right, the top buttons of coats sit right where the nipples are (talking about sexyness:-)

The woman collection looks more natural,I agree. Is it also not very usually with Prada?

And yes, this is a new "trend", making men-women collections "together", same idea, almost same solution, as if people of both sexes had the same need, but only slightly different if it comes to clothes. It works with perfumes, so it might work here, too. Does it Ann D. always work like this, to?

The socks are great:-)

[Faust]

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[quote user="nqth"]

I love ugly, it is like raw edges. A lot of ppl do it, but few do it right.

If I see it right, the top buttons of coats sit right where the nipples are (talking about sexyness:-)

The woman collection looks more natural,I agree. Is it also not very usually with Prada?

And yes, this is a new "trend", making men-women collections "together", same idea, almost same solution, as if people of both sexes had the same need, but only slightly different if it comes to clothes. It works with perfumes, so it might work here, too. Does it Ann D. always work like this, to?

The socks are great:-)

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Yes. Junya also has been doing this lately. I like the concept very much actually, but like you guys mentioned Prada does not do it well (menswear looks unnatural).

[Buckwheat]

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I like the color on the clothes but not on the socks/tights....and I don't find this looks sexy at all for some reason. I don't really follow all the collections so can't compare to the others. Just think that this is fill with trendy items for the girls...and I guess that's what Prada is for :)

[shahrinbahar]

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agreed agreed =)

[Faust]

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[quote user="shahrinbahar"]agreed agreed =)

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With what?

[Faust]

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Cathy Horyn, from her blog

State of Affairs: Miuccia Prada

Everybody has been talking about the Prada show. Did you like it? Did
you hate it? I must say it wasn?t one of my favorite Prada shows, but I
love the fact that Miuccia Prada will just wing it every now and then.
Wreck house, as my son likes to say when you?ve done something big. Ms.
Prada?s fall collection seems a continuation of her fascination with
banalities. The cheap coat. The vulgar color. She put out a lot of new
fabrics that would certainly draw comparisons to upholstery and bath
mats. And the blues and oranges made you think of those stuffed wind-up
ducks and rabbits you see sold on the streets here. All this is
fascinating and proof, I suppose, of Ms. Prada?s rich imagination. My
problem is that, on most days, I don?t want to look like a stuffed duck
or a bath mat. Knowing the legitimate war that Ms. Prada wages within
herself about commercialism, I heartily admire her guts. We should all
be bold. But this time I felt she was rather too immersed in the realm
of ideas and abstractions to be effective.