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By Tyler Watamanuk
Yesterday’s Prada program, Miuccia Prada’s last solo effort before joining through co-artistic director Raf Simons, one for books. The collection included a combination of smart neckless fit and elegantly fitted tracksuits. Soft fabrics were presented along technical fabrics without too much fanfare. Sportswear labeled Linea Rossa even on display. Like many vintage Pradas, the garments are read uncomplicated, wise and incredibly easy to wear. But one of the looks jumped out of the rest.
This look, number 19: an impeccable white shirt with a collar, with a thick black tie, worn with a pair of pleated tracksuit pants, in the shade of the sensibleest. The outfit was complemented by a utility-looking messenger bag and black sneakers dressed. It’s a head-to-toe look designed for our era of quarantined house paintings. The contrast is obvious, even a little fun: the paintings dress with the most sensible and cozy comfort at the bottom. You can use it in a Zoom meeting, and your colleagues wouldn’t be wiser with the secret comfort that just hides out of sight. Each garment alone looks like Prada: sublime, sublime and undeniable, but the total gaze is felt exactly from that moment.
This is a special time for the way we dress. In March, when maximum workplace staff left home for work, sweatpanons and casual clothing became the new uniform. Fashion fans and Jawnz enthusiasts, meanwhile, were not going to let the fact that they did not leave the space prevent them from dressing in their favorite clothes, as shown through the Working From Home Fits Instagram account. About six months after the start of the pandemic, dressed in messy suits in tracksuit pants, she has lost some of her brilliance.
Perhaps this is the look that Ms. Prada is looking for in fashion next year: an aesthetic that combines a strong taste and the ideal comfort in a harmonious attire. It’s a combination of what we could have used for our cabin work, combined with the cozy quarantine wool that has surpassed many daily cabinets. Call it Zoom Chic. Let Miuccia Prada, master of filtering confusing garments through a prism of sublime simplicity, careful to distill our moment into a single attire. And in typical Prada fashion, it’s a look you should wear.
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