Saturday, May 28, 2011

PRADA Men's RTW S/S NYLON ACTIVE TRAINER 2010

A short sign-of-life post.  I've been galavanting around without my computer and have been neglecting blogging about recent and not-so-recent (but have yet to be worn) acquisitions of interest.  Many more postings are ahead in the coming weeks.  

I purchased these trainers in the Summer of 2010 at the Prada SOHO store, (which merits its own post at some point) and I have been searching ever since for the more widely-known ugly-beautiful orange and green version.  Everything about these shoes works perfectly from a visual aesthetic perspective, which is an exception to the rule for Prada.  I'm ambivalent about whether or not it's a good or a bad thing as proportions are all garment and shoe-specific.  In the case of these trainers however, these mostly fly under the radar---unlike say, the Espadrilles whose soles came this very shoe.  Suede, nylon, plastic, rubber, leather: these fetishistic components have been amalgamated in a wearable, classic shoe.  Note, I almost bought them in sky-blue before settling on the modern grey and silver.  


I almost left with these--this was taken in the Madison Avenue Store.