Miuccia Prada skipped all the talk about legislating against super skinny models this season.
The Italian fashion maestro didn’t need a piece of paper to know that both women (and let’s not forget the menfolk) like to see a little curve on the catwalk.
With the help of models Lara Stone and Doutzen Kroes, Prada’s autumn winter 2010 collection celebrated T&A with full skirts emphasising hips and tops with underwire pleats framing busts.
The collection harked back to a time when women with breasts walked the catwalk and beautiful children from difficult-to-pronounce European lands weren’t trotted out to thrust flat chests ahead of emaciated hips.
The 1990s. Time to celebrate a little sexiness on the catwalk from an era when models tempered being impossibly beautiful by singing along goofily to the catwalk soundtrack, shaving their heads and trying their darndest to make kitten heels look good. Yes, Linda, Naomi, Christy, Cindy, Helena, Yasmeen, Stephanie and Karen really were super.
In 1992 Dolce & Gabbana were all about hot pants, cropped tops, babydoll dresses and suspenders with everything; in 1993 Herve Leger (in its original, Max Azaria-free incarnation) strapped supermodels into signature skintight bandage dresses; in 1994 Versace reworked the thigh-high and babydoll dresses in rainbow colours before throwing down some black leather and safety pins; and in 1995 Victoria’s Secret’s first catwalk show featured some bras.
OK, so Victoria’s Secret pre-ridiculous production how was actually a little boring, but hey, it’s a little slice of fashion history that shows just how far an undies company can go once they bring in the craft glue and feathers.
Thanks for the 80085 Miuccia.