Primitive Prada Spring 2009

MILAN, September 23, 2008

The Prada  Spring 2009 collection was primitive to say the least. Miuccia Prada was definitely  “going back to what counts.”

A back-to-basics glamorous, sexy, messy…

The clothes were disarranged in various states of falling-off or looking as if they might do so at any moment - subversive sexual provocation. Rumpled and crinkled fabrics have been appearing all over this season, but never with such sly intent. One pull of a trailing drawstring tape and, whoops! A person could find herself half naked. Not that this collection is at all brassy. From some angles, it can all look like a perfectly innocent summery dishevelment—that is, until there’s a glimpse into an open-sided dress, or a cashmere sweater turns to display hospital-tape ties holding the back together (or just about).

There was something fabulously Italian about all this shameless reveling in femininity. The fifties overtones, with the high chignons, the ruched bras, and swishing rear action in the below-knee pencil skirts, managed to channel the heyday of Cinecittà without cliché.

Best of all, this is a collection destined to look even better on a woman with a real body than it does on a teen model. And that is what really counts.

Source: Style