Thursday, June 26, 2008

Prada Brings Masculinity Back


Yes, folks, masculinity is back. On the runway, at least.
" There isn’t a lot of latitude these days to indulge controversy or ideas in fashion, and so even Miuccia Prada in her strong collection seemed far less intent than usual on engaging in what Carlo Antonelli, the editor of Italian Rolling Stone, termed “the discourse about gender.”

In other words, Prada ditched the peplums and other feminizing elements of her last, determinedly noncommercial collection and sent out a tightly organized presentation that combined elements of sports and formal wear and that eroticized men without rendering them drones."
Read full feature here.
graph per ny times

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hmm. Tres masculine, indeed.....

Anonymous said...

glad to hear that Prada ditched the plumes :)