It seemed fashion was intended for women who wanted to please society-women who were objects.” Citing her admiration for fellow women designers including Vivienne Westwood, Sonia Rykiel, and Rei Kawakubo, her own designs were uniquely subjective. Prada gleefully took on the challenge after she realized that fashion “is a way to be connected to what’s happening in art, design, music-the general culture of the time.” She also disparaged the fashion system of the late ’70s and ’80s and the clothes that she felt were “designed in a commercial way, not a personal way. ![]() She finally did so in 1988 (Miu Miu followed in 1993). Raf Simons for CALVIN KLEIN 205W39NYC, fall 2017 ready-to-wear Photo: Yannis Vlamos / įor Prada, clothing design was almost an accidental adjunct to her reinvention of the family brand that she inherited in 1978-it took Bertelli several years to persuade her to branch out from rethinking modern luggage (which she had done by using the resilient woven Pocono nylon previously employed only for coverings to protect the company’s expensive items to make them instead) to reimagining modern clothing. (That emporium initially specialized in oggetti di lusso-“luxury objects”-that, in keeping with the taste of the times, included glass from Bohemia and jade from the Far East, but ultimately became known for its high quality luggage, fit for Italy’s royal family). Prada was born to a bourgeois Milanese family-her father’s company made lawn mowers for putting greens her quietly elegant mother inherited the celebrated luxury leather goods company founded by her own grandfather, Mario Prada, in 1913 in Milan’s soaring Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II shopping arcade. His mother was a cleaning lady, his father a night watchman in the Belgian army, but his education in taste began with his inspiring aunts who lived in flat-roofed villas with Verner Panton and Eero Saarinen furniture that gave their nephew a lifelong passion for midcentury aesthetics-it’s one that Miuccia Prada shares. Simons was born in the town of Neerpelt in rural Belgium, “a village between cows and sheep” as he once told Vogue. “What matters for me is ideas, and the aesthetics are totally secondary,” Prada has declared, but those aesthetics have changed the way men and women have wanted to present themselves in the last three decades, and in Simons she has found an accomplished collaborator-Flemish cool to her Italian warmth, pragmatist to her gut-feeling fantasist-to challenge and inspire. The move is also a vote of confidence in the power of the creative imagination at a time when the bottom line dominates much of an industry obsessed with exponential growth and number crunching. And so today’s announcement that Raf Simons-innovative menswear designer, alum of Jil Sander, Christian Dior, and Calvin Klein-would be joining Prada as co-creative director, with the two famously opinionated personalities working together to reimagine the brand for the 2020s, seems like a masterstroke of innovative thinking. Screenshotting a tweet from Sixers beat writer at The Athletic, Rich Hofmann, that referred to Embiid’s comments directly, Petracca posted to his Instagram story: “8 turnovers twice in the series and wasn’t clutch? Maybe look at your own game before you blame someone else.“When I was a girl,” Miuccia Prada confided to Vogue’s Sarah Mower in 2004, “I always wanted to be different, and before the others.” It is a desire that has guided Prada’s life at the creative helm of a multibillion-dollar global brand, one shaped by her protean talents and instincts and by her ability to reimagine what the future of fashion might look like. ![]() But I thought that was the turning point.”Įmbiid’s comments drew a blunt reaction from Melbourne Demons star Christian Petracca, who has a long-running friendship with Simmons from their days in junior sport. I turned the ball over and tried to make something happen from the perimeter. “We didn’t get a good possession on the other end and Trae came back and he made a three and then from there down four, it’s on me. I thought the turning point was when we - I don’t know how to say it - but I thought the turning point was just we had an open shot and we made one free throw and we missed the other and then they came down and scored,” he said. Christian Petracca’s Instagram story regarding Joel Embiid’s comments about Ben Simmons after Philadelphia lost game seven of their playoff series against Atlanta.
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