Discover the PRADA Spring Summer 2012 campaign video, which brings to life Miuccia’s tantalisingly feminine automobile-inspired designs including Cadillac wedges and flame-tipped stilettos in retro pastel shades of racing green or lipstick pink.
Mrs. Prada’s Paris museum
Via Interview:
Continuing her love affair with the world of contemporary art, the fashion designer Miuccia Prada has once again joined forces with Italian multimedia artist Francesco Vezzoli, this time with a ‘pop-up’ museum in the heart of Paris. Entitled ’24-hour museum’, the temporary show has been constructed within the Palais d’Iéna, an historical French political building, and features an illuminated neon cage lining the walls constructed by the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas’ AMO agency. Mrs. Prada fêted the ephemeral project with a VIP dinner and champagne reception before opening the doors to the public for one day only.
Vezzoli revealed a series of ten lightbox statues for the occasion, works he simply described as “my icons turned into sculptures and placed on marble pedestals.” Referencing the classical sculpture of female goddesses Vezzoli haphazardly collaged the facial features of Hollywood starlets onto the figures, with the instantly recognisable likeness of actresses including Sharon Stone, Eva Mendes, Natalie Portman or Michelle Williams topping off the 2D sculptures. “His (Vezzoli’s) work is much more political than he likes to admit. It is about our obsession with celebrity and the way that art wants to stay in a kind of limbo,” said Prada.
Through thick velvet drapes, a mirror ball hung above the dance floor in an aptly titled ‘Salon des Refuses’ across the hall, in which cardboard cutouts of Vezzoli’s rejected icons (namely himself) were seen ‘dancing’ among the revellers as Kate Moss hit the decks to DJ the post-dinner party. Sidling in just days after the menswear shows (in a week laden with pre-fall and haute couture) it seems Prada’s unapologetic flair for innovation has created the happening on everybody’s lips. With not a stitch of clothing necessary.
Via Vogue Italia:
See the Spring Summer 2012 collections of PRADA, BALENCIAGA, CHANEL and more in a cheeky “home-shopping” clip shot by Steven Meisel. Featuring Joan Smalls, Natasha Poly, Caroline Trentini, Daria Strokous, and Karlie Kloss, assisted by the darling NY socialites Michelle Harper and Camilla Staerk.
PRADA - Via Motenapoleone, Milano
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HÈRMES - Via Sant’Andrea, Milano
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A couple of COCCODRILLO happy snaps, enjoying the elaborate window displays of some of our favourite Milanese stores on a recent buying trip to the Italian shoe capital…
2012 Coccodrillo Christmas Cards by Stephen Jones
Eddy Michiels, Geert Bruloot and the COCCODRILLO team are delighted to present the “2012 Coccodrillo Christmas Cards by Stephen Jones”. Across the Ladies’ and Mens’ boutiques in the Schuttershofstraat in Antwerp, celebrated English milliner Stephen Jones has illustrated five unique christmas cards featuring Santa and his Christmas stockings, an elegant holly stiletto and pudding hat, and a snapping Christmas crocodile!
Featuring Spring 2012 previews from the collections of BALENCIAGA, PRADA, MR. HARE and FERRAGAMO CRÉATIONS
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“When I was a little boy in ’60′s Liverpool making my own Christmas cards, I
never imagined a little guy like me would have his drawings in the windows
in the bestest and most famous shoe shop in the world!”
- Stephen Jones
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FERRAGAMO CRÉATIONS
Viatica 3 (1958-1959)
Handmade re-edition of the model created by
Salvatore Ferragamo for the actress Marilyn Monroe
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Hats by STEPHEN JONES
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PRADA
Spring 2012 Preview
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MR. HARE
Spring 2012 Preview
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Hats by STEPHEN JONES
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PRADA
Spring 2012 Preview
Tales of Amber…
She is an elusive character, an ever-changing persona of questionable motive and undeniable fantasy. She is Amber, the fictional muse of the Arnhem Mode Biennale 2011 – an abstract personification of fashion in all it’s forms.
Coercing the viewer to question fashion as artistic expression, the Biennale’s curator JOFF stripped fashion back to it’s most fundamental elements for this large-scale exhibition. From its atmospheres (film, photography, sound & smell), to its tools (hair, makeup, shoes & accessories), the exhibition is a whimsical journey through fashion, that finally arrives at the overall ‘visions’ of many international designers.
Many of the most impressive installations came from within Coccodrillo’s stable of designers, including three silhouettes from the MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA‘s artisanal collections (including the ‘Kite Dress’, above) simply posed on pedestals – allowing the meticulous handwork to speak for itself.
A.F. VANDEVORST moulded 250kg of wax into the form of a sleeping girl, echoing the show concept of their 1999 ‘Individuals’ collection. An Vandevorst lit the candle for the first time on Tuesday, and it will burn for the entire duration of the Biennale (until July 3rd).
Nautical but nice…
IN THE WINDOW: TABITHA SIMMONS‘ BRETON-INSPIRED SANDALS & ESPADRILLES ARE A BOLD WAY TO STEP OUT IN STYLE THIS SPRING.
We’ve chosen some of our favourite details from the Spring Summer collections at YVES SAINT LAURENT, PRADA & MIU MIU – with punchy appliqué, colour-blocking & sharp angles for a graphic, ladylike compliment to Tabitha’s designs. (more…)
Prada’s scale of innocence
As the prét-à-porter shows begin for Coccodrillo’s busy buyers, PRADA kicked off Fall 2011 in Milan last night with a demure take on the swingin’ Sixties, bringing a new innocence to old-world glamour. Miuccia Prada delivered drop-waisted 20′s silhouettes in a myriad of shift dresses and coats – delivered with 7/8 sleeves, block-printed in homage to YSL’s Mondrian dress; crafted in translucent, sleeveless silk gazars; or layered with jewel-toned acrylic paillettes. Lashings of python, fox & faux fur could be found on cocooning outerwear and racing headgear, with the exotic skins snaking their way down to opulent clutches and all the way to the girl’s feet.
View the collection here (more…)
NY Times: Throwing Down The Gauntlet
With a passion for beautiful things and the highest quality at Coccodrillo, we remain dedicated to knowledge and transparency in the fashion industry and all its avenues.
We would like to share the following article from the NY Times, written by renowned International Herald Tribune fashion editor Suzy Menkes, about Miuccia Prada’s efforts to clearly define production origins within the house of Prada, for customer awareness and honesty in business.
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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