In the past few days, the memorial ceremony of the Western Empress Dowager has been dressed up, and the guests present are all imaginary, eager to wear their most brilliant VW magic weapons.
But many people may not know that in addition to the great clothes and accessories of the Empress Dowager Xi, she also has a unique job - an unusual wedding class representative.
I know how to be gentle and gentle in other wedding dresses, in addition to getting married on the occasion, I basically don't need it in other places, but the unruly old woman is not biased, the wedding dress she made is not said to be worn for marriage, and it is also worn directly by many people to go shopping.
This unconventional operation also allows us to discover the beauty of the other side of the clothes. That is, when everyone wears a piece of clothing every day, they do not necessarily first frame it with subjective aesthetics, just as the traditional cognition feels that wedding dresses can only be worn for marriage, but can boldly stand on the opposite side to break the rules, the original sense of contradiction of binary opposition will immediately become a kind of binary harmony beauty because of your reverse thinking. This can also be seen in Prada's new collection.
And there is more than one set.
You will find that Prada's new style not only appears to wear the formal evening dress as a private dress, but also the richer and romantic play of the binary harmony, of course, this is also reflected in this season's conflicting shoes:
This kind of formal and daily contradiction, the collision of rigidity and softness happens to be what we ordinary people lack, but after reading today's article, I believe that everyone will have new gains.
In daily life, every time we go out to face what to wear for different occasions, we often fall into the strange circle of formal and daily incompatible, often trapped in the formal and formal to go to the party and abandon the comfort; Going shopping with girlfriends, wearing super comfortable clothes and ignoring romance, is the same as the strength and weakness in the competitive relationship, the sensibility and rationality shown in the face of a thing, etc. are all contradictory contradictions.
But if you balance the relationship between the two properly, you'll find that romance and everyday life are not at odds.
Just like I said at the beginning to wear a wedding dress to work, keep only the most romantic skirt for a complete set of wedding dresses, and match them with daily sweaters, the overall degree of actual wear is no less than the hip skirts and long skirts we usually wear together, and the sense of romance is not halved.
From this, we will find that although the relationship between things itself is opposite, it can be changed and redefined through action, and it is not difficult to understand that even wedding dresses, which symbolize love, can be worn as private clothes to work.
The designer also added a large number of three-dimensional print decorations to the skirt, and the originally simple and elegant white skirt immediately became flexible and romantic under the embellishment of these flowers.
Obviously, this is more energy intensive and testing craftsmanship than the daily white dress, and this is another point that strikes me in breaking this balance, you can see and feel the love poured into the craftsman who made this dress, the person who gave this dress to you. To put it bluntly, when a designer or someone around you prepares your daily private clothes for you as gorgeous and practical as evening dresses, the love you perceive is doubled.
Now this is a good balance, formal and daily dressing effects are all polished by Aunt Miao season by season. I remember that Prada was a uniform minimalist style before the millennium, and it was only after slowly going through the ugly chic and Frankenstein mix and match style that it was not easy to balance romance and daily life.
It wasn't until Raf joined that this long-cherished wish came to fruition, and I remember that in the first season of their joint design, formal evening wear and everyday clothes were not very harmonious, and they were criticized for the look of sweatshirts layered over skirts.
But since then, it has become more and more coordinated, especially last year's autumn and winter collection, which has designed a lot of practical combinations for multiple occasions that can be both out on the street and dating, and now you can see a lot of people wearing it.
Including myself, I have worn his family's ready-to-wear clothes many times in the past few years when I have both entertained and went out to accompany my family.
The reason why the boundary in the contradictory relationship can be eliminated is that the designer has found a good sense of balance, on the one hand, the use of printing patterns to enhance visual softness, on the other hand, without forgetting to make the sense of subtlety in the public's aesthetics daily through material innovation and matching.
This can also be seen on the handbag. This new handbag is instantly recognizable as a mouth gold bag:
It can be mentioned that the general perception left by everyone is that it is full of nobility, dinner party killers and other very formal impressions, which is also because it was born from the very beginning of its popularity to meet the social scene of the upper class, and then later, with the back of many European and American celebrities and noble ladies in film and television dramas, the mouth gold bag is invariably linked to the official.
But the fact that this package is only used to "speak on the table" is not set in stone.
Aunt Miao began to change its identity in the Prada Fall/Winter collection 9 years ago, but at that time, due to the influence of trends, she only enlarged the size of the classic gold bag:
The newly launched upgraded version of the mouth gold bag not only neutralizes the security of the classic mouth gold bag and the previous large size, but also integrates the large capacity of the handbag, and the surface of the bag does not have the formal sense of the swollen bulge as before, becoming more structured and daily.
The back method has also been upgraded, and with the support of the telescopic shoulder strap, Prada's new mouth gold bag can also be carried by hand and as an underarm bag.
Not to mention that its shape also incorporates his signature triangle logo elements, and the top of the bag also incorporates a print pattern made of special hot stamping technology.
You will find that these elements and changes are not observed or even ignored, but when you know it, you will be pleasantly surprised. This is where the ingenuity of harmonizing formality and everyday life comes in, and this leapfrog change makes our backpack thinking broader, and there is a lot of silent little romance hidden in actual contact.
The trick of using detail upgrades to balance the original sense of contradiction also holds true on the new shoe.
In many cases, we feel that the origami element in fashion is synonymous with official, and every time it either appears in various luxury fashion exhibitions, or is used as inspiration by big brands in haute couture collections:
But this time Prada actually used it in ready-to-wear, or such a large area of decoration on the toe, with it and special craftsmanship, the shoes made are like works of art, can hold your various evening dresses, can also be matched with a variety of daily pants.
This time, there are also a lot of flat sols, which are very friendly to friends who can't wear heels.
Finally, let's talk about the rigid and soft silhouette, which is also more contradictory in daily wear.
Especially for women, it is a headache, women themselves have a small skeleton, need to establish a strong aura must be by increasing the silhouette of clothes or matching shoulder pads to boost themselves, but in the traditional fashion category and aesthetic cognition, the sense of power generated by these two has always been a male product.
It also makes us often deliberately choose some large silhouettes or shoulder pads in order to show the aura, but often find that the aura is there after wearing it, but the overall look is very good.
Prada's more flexible is to start from the details, through the method of adding elements and changing materials, so that more women can balance rigidity and softness without being limited to masculine strength.
In the new season, this balance makes me feel more relaxed, and the originally plain white shirt collides with the slim fit under the integration of the large pocket of the overall, which will not only allow you to gain strength, but also highlight the femininity of the woman itself.
Different from the simple boyfriend style in the past, this season's suit is also just right for rigidity and softness, like the fit and the classic cocoon silhouette in the men's wardrobe, so as to show the figure without losing toughness.
The materials are also abundant, in addition to the everyday cotton and linen and blends, the new model incorporates heavy leather and suede, which are structured and durable. And under the harmony of Raf, a master of color matching, many combinations that were originally not a good match were unexpectedly brilliant.
From it, you can see the perfect fusion of male strength and female tenderness, and at the same time, you can find more practical sense after integration, and then we feel more care brought by clothes from this integration that breaks down barriers.
Like the army-green flight jacket and the long military coat are far from women in daily life, usually the male friends around them may consider whether to wear it for half a day, but this time the designer will integrate the crop top and thin design into it, and the needs of women who care about height and thinness are solved, and men's rigidity is also there.
This season's clothes are like this, maybe many of the elements that we seem to be incompatible with in our daily lives have become living fossils of inspiration, and the overall wear makes you have a sense of strength without losing the temperament that women should have, this sense of balance just right, this joy and warmth after breaking the reorganization of the antagonistic relationship are also rare in the past.
At the end of writing, I have to say that Prada with Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons is like hiding a golden double gun, allowing us to see the softness of the female perspective and the masculinity of the male perspective when designing new explosive models. With such internal and external cultivation, it is not difficult to understand that the original two opposing things can be collided with new sparks.
Among them, we can experience the high practicality brought to us by the integrated clothing, and we can also feel that each step in the upgrade and derivation process of the clothing itself is a demonstration of more love and responsibility. Feedback to reality, when the designer makes the clothes or the clothes that the other party gives you, the more detailed and versatile they are, the more they can show their love and care for you.
We can also learn a new aesthetic concept: beauty can be both dominated by ideas and changed by actions. What do you think after watching the new season of Prada? Which one is the most planted?
This article is edited by RUK
Art Editor: Beanie
Romance can be everyday,
Rigid and gentle