Showing posts with label banana prints. Show all posts
Showing posts with label banana prints. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 5

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It always makes me a little angry when people criticise Anna Wintour's style. She might not be the edgiest of people but I love how she always looks 100% occassion-appropriate. There's been a bit of talk about her wearing jeans at the Sony Ericsson open in Florida. Apart from the fact that it's amazing how she's managed to stay that skinny for this long there was nothing peculiar about Anna wearing denim. I personally find a lot more surprising that she chose to wear one of the famous banana Prada skirts to watch another of the matches. I know how much she loves Miuccia's clothes but it seemed too funky a choice for Anna. I was wrong. I love how she wore it with a plain white tee and a bohemian crochet cardigan and her signature bejewelled necklace.
Looking back at the people who wore the same skirt during fashion month I'd say Anna is the one who's worn it best. Julia Sarr-Jamois is probably second on that list because she looked very cool and Giovanna and Shala take third and fourth places because the first was unoriginal and the second was too easy, admirable as it might be that Monroque managed to wear it days after the SS11 show.

Friday, September 24

The Lady In The Tutti-Frutti Hat

If 24 hours ago anyone had said to me that Miuccia's main inspiration for her Prada SS11 collection was Carmen Miranda I would have never believed them. As it turns out, it was. The Italian genius took Miranda's samba and her famous tutti-frutti hats and she put them into the Prada blender and added a little Warholian spices. The result is what Miuccia herself referred to as 'minimal baroque'. The collection opened with plain one-piece dresses in bold colours and soon gave way to endless bright stripes and cartoony prints with elegant and modern silhouettes. It closed with glamourous LBDs accompanied by (my favourite) 'shrimp' furs, a perfect match for the flapper hairdos that dominated the show.
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For those of you unfamiliar with Carmen Miranda's work, have a look at the video below. It is probably her most iconic song and show and you can totally picture Prada's models walking around he fictitious island. My favourite part is that grand finale with the bananas rocketing out of her hat and the tree-high strawberries. What an amazing show that would have been!
I'm off.

[Pictures: Style.com, theSartorialist.blogspot.com, Kidsmodern.com, vintagetextile.com, wilsonsalmanac.com, alexgofman.net]