Prada has a new look for its spring/summer 2009 campaign. Colors are out, passed over for the sophisticated look of neutrals.
The Italian fashion houses handbags, shoes, and outfits are shown off by a collection of beautiful blond mannequins. Playing the role of the clothes horses we see Nimue Smit, Giedre Dukauskaite, Sigrid Agren, Toni Garrn, Katrin Thormann, Viktoriya Sasonkina, and Ymre Stiekema. How they ever found seven gorgeous girls who look so similar I’ll never know. Their dewy skin and polished chignon hairstyles certainly add refined glamour to this campaign.
Prada say the advertising campaign was inspired by “ancient stone bas-reliefs and a desire to return to basic emotional and physical dimensions in classical art and early culture.“
That’s a lot to get your head around, and those ancient influences probably don’t matter to most of us anyway. Here on the precipice of 2009, it’s just a beautiful commercial to admire.
It was all captured by Prada’s favorite photographer, Steven Meisel.
