If it is indeed true that no one wants a single head-to-toe designer look anymore, Miuccia Prada is ready for the challenge. Come spring 2005, her stores will be full of such a range of merch that it will seem scarcely possible it emanated from the same source. "Something for everyone" is generally a cop-out of a come-on, but in Prada s case, it s a great excuse to crowd her catwalk with everything from luxuriously fabricated suits to naïve-printed mousseline shirts to patchwork snakeskin slippers to chunky Bakelite brooches—sometimes in the same outfit.
In other words, if you can t monopolize them, seduce them with choice. Here, that meant beautiful pinstripes next to abstract fish-and-yacht-printed shirts and belt-backed military jackets in worn denim (with a Che cap to sharpen the reference). As a catwalk exercise, the skating across styles and decades felt slightly schizo, but Prada s ever expanding knack for intertwining high and low culture meant that her show was never less than fascinating—and often much more.
