So the men’s fashion train has chugged into its first station and as always there are the emperor’s new clothes. Yes these are the clothes that will be lining the rack of eponymous stores and departments in the best stores around the world. We are lucky enough to have them all in geographic convenience especially when the end game is SHOPPING! Start looking around mid-June and ye shall find!
And one more time I find myself shaking my head and asking the same questions that I ask after almost every Prada collection, whether it is for men of women. One more time I am faced with all these words that are somehow required to explain the raison d’etre for creating this strange assortment of garments that is called a Prada collection. Anyone who has kept up with my reviews and writings will recognize the phrase …”the blah blah blah of fashion.”
Miuccia Prada is the reigning queen when it comes to blah blah blah and at this point it is becomes tedious, odious, expected and boring. Yes a coat can look like a bathrobe if you face it in a silk foulard which would be normally used for pajamas or robes and men in shrunken silhouettes look as foolish as those who look like they are about to burst a seam in their jackets.
The color palette is off beat and beautiful but it is the layering and the proportions which suddenly make the clothes appear freakish. Yes there is a wave of fitted jackets and slightly suppressed waists and defined shoulders, but here that is all exaggerated to an almost comic result.
Yes there is another wave which seems to be sweeping through the collections, that being a very “dandyish” more sophisticated and extremely pulled together appearance. It is difficult to rationalize that if Ms. Prada wishes to present a more comedic look at these elements, then why are these clothes stratospherically expensive?
My take is the joke is on the consumer as they are the ones who don’t realize that even the designer may have been smirking when she designed it, but alas she is not there at point of sale! One more time I will reiterate, clothes hang on hangers, they do not come with romance cars that explain the origins, and so what is the consumer to think of this?
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