>but since you are in Soho, go the corner of Broadway and Prince to
>the Prada Store
I've been there. Also very very beautiful store and merch. Of course the pricetags are ridiculous, but I don't get why so many people can focus on that and not the sensual pleasures. This is a new take on the old maxim about knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing!
By the way, Miuccia Prada is some kind of pinko. This is from a profile of her in the June 21, 2003, Financial Times (which I posted here at the time):
>Talking with Prada, it's apparent how tough she is on herself as a
>designer and as someone with the potential power and influence to
>make her views more widely known. A political science graduate, she
>espoused the politics of the far left (which, for the Italian
>bourgeoisie, invariably translates as communism-lite). In 1971 she
>took on her grandfather's accessories company and, since then, she
>has kept a tight lid on her political convictions. However, these
>are increasingly threatening to bubble over. "I can't talk about
>them because I would look ridiculous or misunderstood. The problem
>is that to be a rich fashion designer you are supposed to be stupid
>and I hate the idea of appearing like an intellectual and so I
>indulge in a certain camouflage. To be politically serious is to be
>so different from everything else. I hate myself talking about
>things that I am not doing."
>
>Is designing clothes enough, I ask? She taps the plastic cup against
>the table with machine-gun intensity. "You have an idea of justice,
>but then you find yourself doing just the opposite and it is an
>uncomfortable position," she admits. But doesn't this reflect the
>overall weakness of the fashion person in politics? "Exactly. If I
>was a furniture designer, I could talk. But fashion designers are
>considered the worst of the worst. I am very sensitive to this
>feeling about fashion."