So there you are at your office, ready to roll up your shirtsleeves and get down to it in a light blue boiler suit, epaulets on the shoulders and patch pockets on the front, when suddenly you get an invitation to the opera. Do you panic and run home to change? Do you refuse to attend because you don’t have the right thing to wear?
Or do you simply pull on a pair of elbow-length satin gloves, slip on some bejeweled pumps and sparkling drop earrings, and head out?
Say you are sitting at home in your underwear, when a natural disaster looms. Do you pause to change into something more appropriate, or just add a pea-green chore jacket, grab a handbag, and go?
Say you are faced with a confluence of unexpected events and don’t have time to figure out an outfit amid the chaos. Don’t fret. Adapt.
Such was the life lesson of the Prada show on Thursday, told through clothes. Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons, the co-creative directors of the brand, have never exactly been pegged as doomsday preppers, but that was the vibe. Backstage, watching them practically disappear amid a tsunami of well-wishers, you could understand why. They did set the show atop a floor the shade of an orange hazmat suit.
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