If you can’t wear them tongue-in-cheek, as Prada herself does-thumbing her crooked nose at received ideas about beauty and sex appeal-they can make you look like a governess. Only in the dressing room do you discover that her ostensibly proper little pleated skirts, ladylike silk blouses, and lace dinner suits are a test of your cool. He is the champion of the risk-averse, and Prada has always slyly perverted the canons of impeccability that his brand embodies.
He went on to scold Prada for “bad taste that becomes chic.” Her clothes, he added, are “sometimes ugly.”Īrmani’s perception was hardly novel, and Prada might not have disagreed-“I fight against my good taste,” she has said-though she also might have pointed out that when bankers want a fashion insurance policy they buy one of Armani’s suits. “Fashion today is in the hands of the banks and of the stock market and not of its owners,” he told the press. and Prada’s runway show-a collection of Day-Glo floral prints and nerdy plaids-inspired complaints from Giorgio Armani. Last June, Men’s Fashion Week in Milan took place a few days after Miuccia Prada and her husband, Patrizio Bertelli, who runs the business end of their empire, had raised $2.1 billion with a long-delayed, much ballyhooed initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Photograph by (Right): Condé Nast Archive Miuccia Prada, left, photographed by Brigitte Lacombe, will share the stage with Elsa Schiaparelli at the Costume Institute.
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