Fashion people love Prada and Prada’s little sister brand, Miu Miu. Celebrities who want to look like they know something about fashion love it. Normal people don’t love it. They don’t even ‘get’ it and that’s fine, because it isn’t for normal people.
Sure the mini backpacks from the '90s were popular with everyone, but these days the only people who really wear head-to-toe looks from the Italian label are fashion people and celebs who either ‘get’ it or wish to portray the image that they ‘get’ it.
Designer Miucci Prada is awesome, intelligent and decidedly non-sexy. Some might even say ugly, which is one of the main reasons celebs aren’t into it. Who wants to wear ugly clothes on the red carpet when you could have your boobs and butt out in some tight sexy bit of lycra?
So with it all that being said, it’s understandable that when you’re a celebrity and you go to an A-list event in your very best Miu Miu hot-from-the-catwalk look, you probably don’t expect to bump into someone else in the same outfit, even if it is a Prada event. You could probably count on one hand the number of celebrities who would dare step out in a total catwalk ‘look’ and possibly carry it off; Olsens x 2, Chloe Sevigny, Tilda Swinton and Daphne Guinness (who isn’t really a celebrity anyway).
Chloe Sevigny can, in my opinion, carry anything off. Here she sports a MiuMiu embellished skirt that someone’s gran might wear on a cruise, stripper platforms, a weird top and matching odd grey bra and a big woolly cardigan. And yet, it works. Zoe Saldana on the other hand… I have to bring her to task on this look.
First of all, you’re never going to look better than Chloe so that’s tough shit to start with, but secondly wearing a head-to-toe ‘look’ is really hard to carry off unless you’re one of the above-named people. This season’s tricky mid-calf skirt is a challenge in itself, and trying to disguise the awkward length with matching tights is not the answer. The silky blue blouse and pink bra somehow doesn’t work; it just looks like her top has come undone, I’m sorry.
Chloe vs Zoe. Who wins? And you’re not allowed to say neither.
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