a model is down

i repeat, a model is down, someone get a marlboro light, a diet coke and a fattie line of coke. STAT.

vno, i joke. it's never funny with the unnaturally beautiful, thin supermodel goes down. never. it is simply schadenfreude at its most glorious. but there is seriousness going on right now with all the spring shows--designers on the loose, and models turning on their handlers and shit...the prada spring ready-to-wear show happened yesterday in milan. here is a review.

the beginning quote from the piece: "I wanted to go forward by trying to cancel out nostalgia. By canceling out the body," said Miuccia Prada. She opened her search for new proportions with a big, loose, odd-looking overshirt, pulled over thick gray stockings.

how fucking amazing is this woman? cancelling out the body? cathy horyn has a great piece in the times today about prada: 'The Bourgeois Lady Is Finished,' Miuccia Prada Says