Article: Prada: Erotica and old lace The Collections/ Milan

Suzy Menkes The New York Times Media Group
International Herald Tribune
02-21-2008
Prada: Erotica and old lace The Collections/ Milan
Byline: Suzy Menkes The New York Times Media Group
Edition: 1
Section: SPECIAL REPORT

As the models walked down the steep runway in dresses as dark as pitch, just a nude-toned neckpiece suggesting something edgy underneath, the Prada collection seemed a world away from last season's subversive flutter of fairies.

Then came the first shot of arsenic and old lace: the lace worked in flowers, crunchy or transparent, with the kicker in the sexual charge coming literally from underneath in the case of transparent panels showing and revealing clinging underpants and ...

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