Prada in the Barneys Sale

photo from Barneys New York, find the shoes HERE

You know the fashion business is really screwed up when you are browsing the Barneys website and you spot some silver Zara shoes on it.  Whaaaat? I thought, only to realize they were in fact silver Prada shoes. Zara copied them and since there are many more Zara stores than there are Prada, you could easily be mistaken and think Zara has already done these. Mental note: everything in Zara was inspired by someone else's design - I think I knew that, but it's easy to forget.

Barneys has a lots of Prada shoes in its sale, for prices far less than in Hong Kong. They now ship worldwide so if you love rummaging through a sale, this is a good one. There was an interview with Miuccia Prada last week in the New York Times - pretty entertaining, she discusses again how she evolved from an young communist to a luxury goods designer and her struggle to justify this to herself. Someone will, I hope, at some point tell her to get over it - she is 64 now and she is very good at making very beautiful clothes that make people very happy. She is a very lucky girl, in fact. And we are lucky that there are still so many pretty things left in the sale. You can read the NYT article HERE.