Have a look at the poor model in this video. Yes it’s from Prada, prompting one fashionwatcher (tks Bianca) to suggest, “This is worse than Yulia’s”. This refers of course to the spectacular Prada runway stack, on Tuesday, of up-and-coming Russian model, Yulia Kharlapanova - who has emerged from her sophomore runway season an inadvertent poster victim of fashion misogyny.
Kharlapanova was one of several girls who fell during Prada.
Unlike the others however - and indeed, Abbey Lee Kershaw at New York’s Rodarte show earlier in the month - Kharlapanova conveniently fell in full view of the photographers’ pit and the images went all around the world:
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Rodarte and Prada are just two of many runway shows in which models have either stumbled, or fallen, this season.
Yesterday veteran Angela Lindvall, who has been modelling for 12 years, fell twice in the space of five minutes at Pucci.
Lindvall told The UK Telegraph:
"I feel so embarrassed. I've never fallen before and now I go and do it twice in the same show. I don't think the platform soles were balanced properly."
But while many continue to claim that a cabal of gay men rule the fashion world, both the Prada and Rodarte brands, curiously, are designed by women.
One of them – Miuccia Prada – is a political science graduate, a former member of Italy’s Communist Party and a self-avowed feminist, who told The Independent in 2004:
"You know, I had to have a lot of courage to do fashion, because in theory it was the least feminist work possible - and at that time, in the late Seventies, that was very complicated for me. Of course, I liked it a lot but I also wanted to do something more useful."
Like designing crippling shoes for women in which they risk breaking not only their ankles, but their necks?
If Prada’s femdar appears to be in need of a little calibration these days – then let’s hope that at least her public liability policy is up to date.
4 comments:
fair suck of the sav patchwork, amusing as this footage is (and it's killer), satin sockette's and heels (like I reported post spill) aren't good mates.
I'd like to see them walk again in bare feet and then lets see how many topples we get.
i don't recall seeing any sockettes at rodarte
When I see a show like Prada's when there is stacking involved, there is something seriously wrong with the designed shoes. How far does someone like Miucci want to take? Who on earth is going to be wearing a shoe like that? I certainly would like to see her wearing that all day. I'm almost to the point of profanity and calling her a bitch.
Ugh ugh ugh. The last time really high heels were in (sometime in the mid-90s?) I had a few pairs. Now the heels are filtering through to work wear and guess what? I can't wear them because I fuxored up my ankles the last time round! Now its flats and a slight wedge, thanks. *sigh* Good thing Im five seven tall.
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