A Shoe In: Prada
In Milan for Fall Winter 2010-11, Miuccia Prada proposed her womens collection as a reprisal of many of her classic signatures – the divine mix of the technical and classical that has always kept her at the forefront of trends in fashion design.
Girls wore a busty A-line silhouette harking back to the ’50s, a murky palette popped with primary colours and a beehive hairdo plucked from the ’70s, and technical fabrications direct from the ’90s.
Miuccia’s signatures of patent leather and abstract grid prints were abundant, as were thick cable knits – which ran down knee-length socks and poured into square or needle-point pumps.
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THE SHOES
As far as footwear, Prada offered patent pumps and sandals in many varieties, from the sharpest point to a full, squared toe (reminiscent of the works of Roger Vivier). Heights scaled from vertiginous levels down to the kitten-heel, which continues to make a widespread return to the fashionable woman’s wardrobe.
Embellishment came as pilgrim silver buckles and skinny patent bows, or decadent all-over beading.
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