MILAN – Maybe it’s the staging, or the
music or the clever themes. But somehow Miuccia Prada
always puts together a great show.
The designer’s latest collection presented
Sunday evening, the second day of preview showings for summer 2013 menswear, was
happy, snappy and just minimalist enough to insure the label’s reputation as the
most avant-garde maison of Italian fashion.
Young lads and mature men walked down the
sloped, pristine white runway wearing nothing more than revisited track
suits.
Prada created an entire collection and a
brand new look, starting with the white-band theme of sportswear items.
First she put the white bands on the
inside instead of outside of a trouser leg, then she accentuated the same white
band for the neckline of the accompanying T-shirt top.
Like musical variations on a theme, the
imaginative designer worked the bands into different components of her summer
wardrobe from shirts to jackets to overcoats.
As the show progressed, the bands changed
color and became ever larger, culminating in a two-tone effect for a simple polo
shirt or the lapel of a jacket.
Meanwhile, the white band also showed up
under the arm of a lightweight raincoat or became the cross strap of a flat
leather sandal.
Not satisfied to limit the new inventions
to the male population, Prada put together a his-and-her version of most of the
outfits.
For the girls, however, the T-shirts came
in luxurious dyed fur. All the female models wore a tennis band around their
head to accentuate the sporty feel of the collection.
The new Prada bag is unisex. Big and boxy,
it can be carried by hand and double as an overnighter.
From the white stands set up in the trendy
Prada theater, Miuccia’s many fans cheered her on.
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