Prada Men's Big Show: Monsters in Dark Days

The human civilization of thousands of years has fully proved that men are monsters. Recent historical events have provided a contemporary interpretation of this situation. But you don't necessarily expect such an idea to appear on a fashion show. After all, these fashion shows are meant to recommend to men men's clothes that they might wear next fall. Unless, the person who came up with this idea is long known for his ambiguous interpretation of modern masculinity, Miuccia Prada.

In the past few seasons, her mood has become quite low. The culture she loves is smashed into elitism. Wise, rational thoughts are attacked by political populism. Well, as the soul of a luxury company, it's hard not to let people feel arrogant to interpret what is happening. She must be careful when she speaks. Still, the job is good for her. For example, this season, she used this series to tell us what is fear!

This is not simply to say that humans are monsters. They also make monsters. The creation of Dr. Frankenstein is the leading spirit of this series. And this most basic Gothic story casts a long shadow on the show floor. The main figure is a lightning bolt that delivers current to the heart. The show set is like a lab with a huge filamented bulb on the foam rubber floor. They should beep. Instead, the background music of the Rocky Horror Show reminds people how the metaphor of "man plays God" is integrated into pop culture. The monster of Frankenstein itself is a sensational mark that appears with the blossoming of evil flowers.

The entire collection has a Hollywood-style element. After all, we recognize the incarnation of Boris Karlov of the Frankenstein monster. After the show, Miuccia was talking about the upcoming Japanese horror film exhibition in the Prada Fund. The exhibition was curated by a famous director. She could not reveal the director's name. She claims to be her own imagination of the "garbage horror movie" that ignited her latest menswear collection.

But the feeling of horror is far more profound than the garbage. It is obvious from her words that Miuccia is really interested in Mary Godwin, the author of the original work of Frankenstein, the wife of Shelley, Lord Byron. The friend, this extraordinary woman is at the heart of the romantic movement, but she has to publish it anonymously (making people think this is her husband's work), an example of a deceived woman who is sure to cause Miuccia's anger.

Yes, the male model is wearing a tailored jacket (thanks to God, we can't see a ruffled shirt), revealing the chest and showing off the Byron-style curls, but the romance is distorted in every way. "Do you think I am sexy?" - Rod Stewart's male arrogant piece was discoised, along with the Revolting Cocks industrial song. This is followed by Marilyn Manson's version of Tainted Love, which is clearly a deadly disease that has become Godwin's revenge.

The multi-level hints make up the whole series, and this fashion show is like the result of a self-competition. This time Prada launched its own MA-1 jacket, jacket and pants decorated in the bellows pocket. Paired with a half skirt, it is a typical anomalous Prada image: a lavender mohair sweater with crystals. In women's wear, Miuccia turned the cocktail dress into a weapon. Model Kiki Willems' pink satin sandals paired with a backpack ready for march. You must be prepared to carry your life forward, Miuccia might say.

Yes, we are in the dark days, but at the end of the conference, two boys wearing intarsia sweaters with lightning patterns, each with a pink knitted heart-shaped safety pin on their chest. "I have a safety pin in my heart," punk poet Patrik Fitzgerald sang in 1977: "I love you, not because of your cemetery eyes, not because of your shaved thighs, but because of your beats, beats, beats. At the end of the pain, we only have love, no matter how terrible you are.