Prada Fantasies, Epilogue

1. Prada Spring/Summer 2008
2. Prada Fall/Winter 2014

Of course, there are also Prada womenswear collections that I missed. But yet, they do not remain out of reach of our collective heart forever. They return, they come back. Great Prada collections.
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Prada Fantasies III

Prada Spring/Summer 2000

Prada collections that I missed and am missing. Prada collections that were to early for being late. Great Prada collections that should belong to me and our collective heart forever.
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Prada Fantasies II

Prada Fall/Winter 1999

Prada collections that I missed and am missing. Prada collections that were to early for being late. Great Prada collections that should belong to me and our collective heart forever.
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Prada Fantasies

Prada Spring/Summer 2008

Prada collections that I missed and am missing. Prada collections that were to early for being late. Great Prada collections that should belong to me and our collective heart forever.
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A Short History Of The Plastic Raincoat In Popular Culture VI

1. Miu Miu Fall/Winter 2014
2. Thomas Bayrle Produzione Bayrle Coats, 1967-68
3. Prada Fall/Winter 2002
4. Miu Miu Fall/Winter 2014

Never too late, never gone. The coloured plastic raincoat takes us back to 1949, 1967 and 2002. It is true that the future will always look old-fashioned. And the present will always feel like the past.
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Real Fantasy, 2013

or 'Piece Of Me'

Top Prada
Trousers Acne

The best collection ever created. Prada Fall/Winter 2008. A historical moment, impossible to be restaged or relived. A real fantasy and wet dream come true. Men in ruffled skirts, sparkly cummerbunds and extravagant bibs. A radical truth.
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Belated Regrets, Once Again

Prada Spring/Summer 2010

And three years later, Miuccia gets back at me. What was a grey mesh wish-wash then, turns out to be a monochrome fountain of youth now. Which leads us to one conclusion: You can always buy Prada, and wear it some day eventually.
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See also original (quite opposite) review

Superficial Implant

Part II of 'Duplicate Diptych Week'



1. Balenciaga Spring/Summer 1997
2. Gucci Fall/Winter 1996

From 'amorphous forms' (cf. Hans Arp) to 'organic plates' at Balenciaga and Gucci by Tom Ford, strict geometry is broken into fluid shapes. Designed as a golden armour, hidden as second-skin, revealed by cutouts.
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