Prada S/S 2012 — Review

• Story-telling
• Silhouettes
• Inspiration & References
• Main Outfits
• Accessories

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Story-telling  

Prada’s land­mark is to com­bine oppo­sites in uncon­ven­tional ways. Humor and irony is always part of the pro­posal. Men love women and cars.  Miuccia through the col­lec­tion is say­ing, women are objects of desire, like cars, but this cars are shown like car­toons, putting the mas­cu­line aspect in a child­ish posi­tion… and women in power. She finds a way of show­ing how a theme so not fem­i­nine as cars, can be cool and sexy for women too. She brings to fash­ion the unexpected.

Inspiration & References  

The Pin-ups girls were pho­tographs of celebri­ties who were con­sid­ered sex sym­bols, like Betty Grable, whose posters were found in the lock­ers of sol­diers dur­ing World War II. Other pin-ups were art­work, often depict­ing ide­al­ized ver­sions of women that com­bine sex­i­ness and sweetness.

Trompe l’oeil is an art tech­nique involv­ing real­is­tic imagery in order to cre­ate the opti­cal illu­sion that the depicted objects appear in three dimen­sions. Elsa Schiapparelli used this effect in gar­ments in the 1930’s.

Prada’s image of “anti-status” or “reverse snob­bery.” is shown in heavy weight jew­elry (look­ing fake) worn with ease, even for the day. It reminds our child­hood, when we took grandma’s jew­elry and mixed and matched. Also, the use of the rose, as a stereo­type of sweetness.

Silhouettes   

These are the body shapes that remain through­out the collection.

 Main Outfits  

Accessories   

This sea­son acces­sories will be a “must have”. Miuccia picked very clas­sic shapes of bags and shoes and trans­formed them into the coolest pieces. They look com­pletely updated, they are fun but at the same time, ele­gant. The mak­ing is flawless.