Prada’s ‘Bright Young Things’ collection, A/W’11
The A/W’11 Prada collection had more than a touch of the ’60s modster about it – coat dresses with buttons the size of the moon, Op art graphics in jewel brights, sheer shift dresses, patent knee-high boots, low slung hipster belts and huge bug-eyed shades…
Or maybe it was more The Roaring ’20s? With spangly sequins, fur-trimmed lapels on over-sized cocoon coats, drop-waists and straight-up-straight-down-like-an-ironing-board silhouettes…
Still, Miuccia Prada made the collection seem modern and fresh. And not as though the models had dived sculpted, perfect nose first into the bin-bags left outside a charity shop. Speaking of diving, a lot of the models were sent out wearing swimming caps. What with the goggle-like shades, it was all very Duncan Goodhew circa the Moscow Olympics of 1980.
All sounds good so far, and certainly the sort of attire they might don in Wigan. But yet there was something fishy going on. No, not the strange sideways handbag hold demonstrated by the models (akin to me returning home after a booze-fuelled night out, having grabbed my abandoned purse from a-top the night club speaker) but in the aquatic sense – with a series of outfits made with humongous plastic scales, all shimmery and light.
And we reckon we’ve got Miuccia’s muses nailed. We give you Exhibit A (Marina off ’60s puppet series Stingray):
And Exhibit B (Penelope Pitstop from ’80s cartoon Wacky Races:
Making the Prada A/w’11 collection in our eyes very fucking cool indeed.
Catwalk images courtesy of STYLE.COM/
– Natalie Wall
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