ONE thing we need to get straight: the Milan shows aren't really about clothes anymore. They are about selling handsuit s and heels. This point is spelled out at the Prada show, where close-ups ofzentai all-important accessories are projected over the models' heads throughout.
Accessories are what makes the fashion green lantern zentaiworld go round these days. Sales of suit s and heels grease the wheels and put money in the bank. After all, how many women do you know who pay full price for international designer clothes?
The first thing the editors do when they arrive in Milan is shop. Outside the first show, the questions are always: green lantern spandex costume"When did you arrive?", "Where are you staying?" and "Do they still have the Pradas you are wearing in a size 39?"
Editors then turn up at all the shows wearing their purchases.
But this season, it's been tough. Someinvisible woman costume fashionistas have been reduced to polishing up last season's suit s due to the horrible realisation that this season's Pradas may be "ironic", but in marmalade and pink leather they are also ugly. Some have been reduced to carrying the same $1000 Zentai suit uette suit two days running, rather than alternating it with a new Gucci suit , because of the awful truth that Gucci hasn't provided the absolute must-have suit this season.
Those addicted to shopping have had toSpandex Bodysuit console themselves by buying Gucci's (rather fabulous) boots at more than $1000 a pair. But now that the show season has shifted forward by almost a month, it has simply not been cool enough to wear them. Alas! All this has meant much more pressure to come up with the suit and the suit this time around. But there is more to this than one-off shopping. Also for sale are the companies whose Spiderman Costumesfortunes have been made through suit s and heels.