Pradadadada

I'm going to wait until Paris is over to catch up on New York reviews, because if I kept going now, I would always be a few days behind, like trying to catch a bus. Yeah, flunk another test, Desario, and you just might have to come back here next year and ride the bus with me again *weird triumphant even-though-that-makes-no-sense teacher grin*.

But the main thing, PRADA! It took me six months to really come around to last season, but I liked Fall right away. It was livestreamed on the website yesterday (how happy are you that everyone is livestreaming?) and I kept spitting everywhere and "ooooooh"-ing as I watched and skyped with a friend who was probably very concerned for my health.
This post will be more like a journal entry, though, because I can't really articulate my thoughts into a review that isn't all over the place.

Basically every review has already said this, but I'll say it anyway - Miuccia Prada has once again done as she's done with brown turtlenecks, wool shorts, plastic shoes, nylon bags, and rubber waders: challenged established beliefs on these items' ugliness or wearability and proved them wrong. Chunky knits didn't look frumpy because they created sexual tension, like in The Virgin Suicides when it says that the baggy dresses Mrs. Lisbon made the daughters wear only made them more desirable to their dates. Also, I have officially reached a new level of Teen Pretension!

This next part doesn't make much sense and I'm sure I'm reading into it too much/over analyzing, but the collection reminded me of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying in a weird way.

Obviously, the 1960's secretary components - beehives, cat eye glasses, certain color schemes, and I think there was the sound effect of typewriting with the music, at some point. But How to Succeed is also a satire on workplace sexism in the 60's, and the collection somehow took me to this, too:

There was the emphasis put on the breasts (tee hee, breasts. MIDDLE SCHOOLNESS SHOWING, Teen Pretension loses points), be it with ruffles, structure, or piping. The embellishments and accentuation kind of made the bust the most prominent or important parts of the dresses, but somewhat satirically, especially with the lace, since the kind used was more frilly and silly than the darker type from Fall 08.

Unlike the female characters in How to Succeed, however, the women at Prada yielded their own power.
Oh my God, my thoughts are LITERALLY all over the place. But this is kind of making sense, right? Is anyone riding the same wavelength as I am? Or has today just been a really really long headachy day of state testing prep?
The bust accentuating also kind of reminded me of Allen Jones' body casts and sculptures of women as coffee tables or hat stands - he's not saying he considers women as domestic objects; he's giving commentary and pointing out the ridiculousness in when they are viewed that way by others. Again, I know this probably was totally not the point in the collection, but it's what came to mind!

Well, that's about it. I liked it! But before I start to get ready for bed but end up getting distracted with multiple games of Snood, we need to talk about these:EYEBROW GLASSES! My favorite piece from the collection. Dudes. These have to be worn with that nude Celine longsleeve, and a red Miu Miu collar with the naked ladies on it, and a Prada lips skirt in red. By me, preferably. But it's okay if someone else wants to own this outfit and then have to run some errands for a bit and accidentally leave their door unlocked and the outfit laying out in the hall. With some cookies and milk, too. And the potential thief of the outfit and eater of the milk and cookies (ME, hint) would be like a red/white/BROWN Santa Claus.

I mean, other than the glasses, there aren't any pieces I am really LUSTING for. It's more a collection I like as a good collection and not as something really similar to my style, though I can easily imagine dressing like this when I'm older. This isn't clothing for waify teenage models. Though if a teenage girl were to wear these looks, it'd be the one who smokes in the back of the library while reading Nabakov. MORE TEEN PRETENSION POINTS FOR ME.

Goodnight.