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• Prada (womens SS12) Milan

  22 Sep 2011

  The mood board in the Prada design studio for the SS12 collection must have been a culture vulture’s delight. Where Céline’s AW11 collection took inspiration from cars, team Prada chose the same yet with their own twist today. Pastel shades from 1950s American diners took the lead on the runway but were given edge with inspiration from customised hot-rods and Thunderbird cars of the same era. Painted flames and buffed leather are sub-fetishes for devotees of 50s alternative culture and these elements appeared, to many a fast beating hearts delight, jutting out from the back of stiletto heels (see our 'close-ups' section for a better look). Are these shoes or objects of design? Shoe [...]
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• Alexandra Badea 22 Sep 2011 - 22:27:23 look 19. that shade of baby blue gives me the chills. i could live in a world made that sole color.
• Alexandra Badea 22 Sep 2011 - 22:28:24 of that *
• Kanyin Ojo 29 Sep 2011 - 19:05:39 I <3 Miucca's tongue-in-cheek way of looking at 50s youth culture through a 21st century lens. It makes fresh again fashion's trite and clichéd love affair with the 1950s.

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