Monkeys Are The New Cats

If you keep up with fashion like a massive loser (like me) then you'll know that cats have been HUGE lately thanks to Miuccia Prada's Spring 2010 show for Miu Miu and the there was the Lanvin ad campaign with crazy cat lady Kristen Mcmenamy.

Well forget what you know about cats because now it's all about monkeys. That's right, bundle the cat stuff off to the vet and have it put down.

It's over? Just like that? 

The spring Prada collection is amazing. It was bright colours, bananas, monkeys, baroque, FUR!!!!! stripes and black dresses. I like that it was done entirely in Japanese cotton. I don’t know what’s so special about this type of cotton and if anyone knows then leave a comment. I can only presume it’s super-soft and prohibitively expensive. I think this ebbed over nicely from the men’s collection which had a uniform theme and cotton is the all-round hard-wearing fabric of workwear. 

The workmanship appeared rather simple but that's Prada, they’re not synonomous with impeccably made clothes-not to say that they’re badly made but come on-if you want top-notch sewing/pattern skill and technique you go Dior, Balmain, Hermes.
Prada is intellectual fashion and you can poo-poo that statement all you like but it’s true. People, including myself, like Prada because it appeals to their intellectual vanity. Oh look minimal baroque, what a mindf*ck. I'll take ten skirts and a monkey top thanks.

So I can see why some people would look at this collection and say that a first year fashion student could construct these basic skirts and dresses and that’s quite true they could but they didn't. Miuccia Prada did and that’s what makes my heart skip a beat at the electric furs, the absurd baroque monkeys, the finale of black dresses.

Srsly you guys, look at the shape of that jacket, the curving shoulder, the nipped waist, the bulbous sleeve. And that BLUE!!!!! I'm dying here. ps, if you look at the Prada Men's show for 2011 you'll see the same shoes.