Prada’s new collection blurs the lines between East and West

Like Gucci, which took to the catwalk on Wednesday, Prada presented a new take on the pyjama trend which was such a hit this year among celebrities and fashionistas — and both fashion houses looked to the Orient for inspiration.

Prada paid tribute to the Orient on the second day of Milan Fashion Week on with a collection which blurred the boundaries between East and West. Models walked down the catwalk in luxurious kimono-inspired dresses and short-suits. Black was the dominant color while the theme was dominated by large white embroidered flowers or flashes of electric pink on cuffs or necklines.

Soft cocoon dresses and feminine suit jackets, worn with shorts or over short dresses, were given a modern twist with wide, angular layers overlapping at the front — and jazzed up with towering gold or white platform shoes. There were a few charcoal, green and white creations — a series of white furs decorated with the flower motif in red caught the eye — and a blue dress with high neckline and sleeves to the elbow which stunned in its simplicity. Jackets were wrapped and tied at the back and skirts were slit up the side and worn with flat gold boots to mid-calf or white sandals over pink socks.

The show started late as per tradition but received wild applause.

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Csaba Fikker

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Owner and Founder of The Los Angeles Fashion magazine. Csaba Fikker has created The Los Angeles Fashion magazine in hopes of bringing life to the local fashion scene in Los Angeles. He comes with a long history of success founding and co founding several online media companies. He also spent over a decade at various companies as a senior executive. He was one of the original co founders of ON24, once a world wide leader of online on-demand financial news. He served as a Senior VP of Production at NetMovies - a Napster sister company that later was bought by Blockbuster. Csaba Fikker's last corporate position was at KPMG Consulting where he was in charge of building the consulting firm's Streaming media practice. Since then he has left the corporate world in the pursuit of his dearest hobby Fashion Photography, where he spent close to a decade as a successful freelance visual artist. After contemplating on his idea of creating a fashion publication for over 5 years, in an already saturated market, the time and elements of creating a successful business model were just perfect again, thus the final result of this online publication that is set to go to print in late Spring 2012.

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