Minimalissimo

According to Suzy Menkes in the New York Times, Miuccia Prada’s primary aim with her Spring/Summer 2013 menswear collection was to start from scratch. Decorative elements and accessorizing are pared back almost to nothing, giving full precedence to the flat and strictly geometric garments and the sparse modernist white ramps the models walked on. Fittingly, the soundtrack for the runway were excerpts from Jean-Luc Godard’s 1963 movie Contempt.

My favorite aspect of this show is how skillfully color is composed across whole outfits. In one look, a contrasting white appears on the inseam of the trousers, the neckline of a t-shirt and the inner sleeve of a blazer. In addition, I found that the bold inclusion of younger and older male models, and female models suggested both androgyny and ubiquity. Oh, and you know I love socks with sandals.

 

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  3. Chris

    i’ve been a fan of prada for many years, however, i’m not feeling this new collection. i’ll stick to the basics/classics among the mens prada shoes & leather goods & skip the clothing line.

    also, i agree with dave, this is not minimal.

  5. ctd

    Some would be nice if not for that mind-bending inseam color.

  6. Iza

    I think this collection has some hits and misses. Some look very stylish, but some look like uniforms. For Prada, this collection is very stripped back, certainly compared to last year’s, and I like the geometric shapes to the designs. On a separate note, the make-up doesn’t work well.

  7. Alex

    I take this is minimalist in terms of Prada design, but I have to agree with Dave that to my uninitiated eye this hardly qualifies as minimalist.

  8. pista

    from double-coloured pants and cut shape of wide shoes to coloured imbalance and design that somehow makes shapes of the body look stupid (imho). for me it’s more disturbing than comfortable.

  9. Paolo

    I like the graphic consistency of the collection. But I can’t wait to see it on the customers, fat rich foreign men with ugly bodies, that will look like they got out of an episode of Nurse Jackie.

    This is masturbation for fashion people from Milano thinking of Space 1999 and UFO – even if they explained that the inspiration was 2001, a Space Odissey.
    Still, there is something nerdy, You’ll agree.

  10. Yuri Pardi

    as some said, It isnt minimal at all, maybe for Prada tho, I just see Jil Sander all over again. I love the creased pants