Miuccia Prada making more men’s skirts – just for revenge
10:51pm 28th October, 2009 - By Helen LeePosted in Designers, Gossip
Dear Miuccia Parda, we would love to sit down and chat to you about everything fashion, life and whatever is left. But do you have to continue to perpetuate the men’s skirt trend?
The Italian fashion designer recently told Olivier Zahm’s Purple fashion magazine that she is pushing the men’s skirt trend “even further, just for revenge“.
“I’m working on [a men's collection] right now and someone at the office worriedly asked me, ‘You’re not going to make short skirts again, are you?’,” Prada told Massimo Torrigiani in Purple. “So I’m now pushing it even further, just for revenge!”
“Menswear should take cues from womenswear, and not just the other way around. Menswear is so limited so I’m free with my ideas. Otherwise I’d die of boredom.”
What do you think of men in skirts?
Personally, kilts I can understand. Ditto Marc Jacobs in one because when you’re Marc Jacobs you can get away with (almost) anything. But I don’t want my man (if I had one) traipsing around town in one.
October 29th, 2009 at 7:10 am
Yeah so she could do something else than waste her time designing skirts for men cause no man I know would wear a skirt, kilt or dress of any kind
October 30th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
South pacific guy look rather delicious in their traditional sarong skirs and no one would accuse a 6′5″ rugby player of being a wuss.
I don’t mind skirts on a guy at all; the real problem is with the shoes.
One great look I’ve seen is an ankle lenght wrap skirt in dark suiting material with (mens) flat ankle boots. You just can’t wear them with socks and shoes.
October 31st, 2009 at 12:16 pm
I am a daily skirt wearer, and shoes are not the problem. You can find mens shoes looking not heavy or ugly.
I do not have any problem with my skirts/kilts, everywhere I am going I m accepted. I have to wear supporthose, no problem with the skirts, impossible with pants.
Mini-skirts only possible if you have nice legs, my mini-skirts are not shorter than 17 inches, but longest are 21 inches.
If M. Prada want to make more mens skirts, she will have success – if she can make it VERY public, then we’ll have enough demand.
November 1st, 2009 at 8:11 am
As the author already said in the first statement, fashion rules always goes just one way, from male to female. Almost all what is in fashion is borrowed from males wardrobe. The female view of equality or emancipation? I don’t think so.
If we want a real equality we should stop immediately the double standard which is just in our brain, and only in westernized societies, nowhere else.
Men have the same right to adopt from women’s closets if they like. Some men looking stunning in skirts and dresses, short or long, lingerie, stockings and high heels. Very often it accentuates masculinity. So, what is wrong?
Nothing, we are just changing some in our brain and sezxualizing the world, but in just one way, at the end there is only some left: The guy, which must be in movies the bad guy, dressed like fresh adopted out of the trash or looking uniformized in a suit with tie….. Dear reader, just go out of that stupid stereotyped picture we are sometimes believing in, and go back to that point where men and women have the same right… to do they want and dress they like. Accepting everybody is that goal we have to reach.
November 3rd, 2009 at 7:38 am
We (men) should have a choice what to wear. Reasons are simple, skirts and kilts (which are just type of men’s skirt)are comfy and healthy! Guess, why the number of men falling into prostate and testicular diseases and male infertility increases? One of the reasons are trousers.
Skirts was originally worn both by men and women (in Europe too!). Men’s skirts in Europe disapeared during a French Revolution as a symbol of wealth. There are no guillotines waiting for our heads now, we shall return to skirts.
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Men must be confident with skirts and encouraged enough to go with it. Of course, as Kelly stated, almost nowbody would go in because they don’t have the support they are waiting for. I also know a lot of cowards, but I try to support men to go with this fashion trend. As Strikemaster said, a skirt does not just look good on men, it is also for their health and comfort.
What else could make a garment more adorable?
November 5th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
Good luck with that because like I said no “man” I know would dress like that, doesn’t mean the transvestites are included in that statement
November 7th, 2009 at 4:56 am
Kelly, who is that transvestite, You did’t include?
Do You think, man who want to live in comfort is a transvestite?
Skirts are our historical (and pre-historical) type of clothes, I wrote that French Revolution has closed us to wearing only trousers and it’s wrong: unhealthy and injust. There is strong asymmetry between males and females. Women are allowed to wear whatever they want, we can wear only trousers. Why?
Of course, we can wear some type of skirt, called kilt and I wear kilt in public in country without any Scottish minority/majority. So, am I a transvestite?
Also what do You thing about a sarong? It’s men’s skirt too. And Utilikilt, skirts from Midas Clothing, gothic men’s skirts etc.?
November 7th, 2009 at 7:40 am
“Think”, not “thing” of course. :)
In the topic, Prada said, she will prepare some skirts for men just for revenge. Against her co-workers or against men? Why I’m asking? Because if she will show another bizzare style of skirts these wouldn’t sell and it’s against men’s health and comfort. Skirts for men should be simple, made of lether, denim or cotton (as an Utilikilts workman’s kilt) and connected to traditional/ethnic skirts for men.
November 8th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Kelly, do you think really hat men who wearing skirts are transvestites? My gosh, this world must be very narrowed minded if we would believe that. In opposite, all women which are formal dressed, in pant-suits or with ties, men’s shirts i.e. must be then transvestites, too. Or you are going with double standards.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:06 am
It’s overdue that men can wear what they want. Miccia will do the right thing: Creating skirts for men.
I can’t hear or read what always popps up in some comments – by the way if people would think just 5 minutes about why men should wear skirts and not just follow blind old sayings >those are NOT arguments< then the world would be open and not so intolerant against new fashion styles for men.
I am talking about equality and not about double standards like many do, women allowed to do/wear all they want, men have to be restricted all the time.
But Seriously: Is there anywhere in this world who can find one little single reason on earth why men should not wear skirts? I try to find this person since 8 years! It was unsucessful – so then why men do not wear skirts? I do it, everyday – with very positive responses.
November 26th, 2009 at 9:18 am
Martinus, there’s no such reason, so no one can find it. I wrote about asymemtry, double standards in oother words. In fact, the men’s skirts from the runways aren’t selling, maybe beacuse are to strange for ordinary man?
Maybe utility kilts are better way to popularize skirted clothes for males?
These are easier to catch on, see that:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_S7kTez-_I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xojU_MAk81Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_S7kTez-_I
November 26th, 2009 at 11:47 am
Those who do not believe that men should wear skirts are losers and do not believe in male / female equality! They have a disorder in their brain, and need help.
By the way, skirts/kilts/dresses CAN look good on men, and to say that this is not so is a LIE!
November 27th, 2009 at 6:09 am
There are men’s skirts in the new H&M collection for spring/summer 2010, will anybody buy it?
http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/beauty/h-m-s-new-collection-features-skirts-for-men-547911/#photoViewer=1
I think, presented skirt looks good and is easy to sell. Is made in neutral black, is simple, and have some connections to kilt (lenght, pleats).
December 6th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Thanks, Strikemaster;
I believe that skirts looking better on men than pants. Not solong ago I wouldn’t have said that because I didn’t have any opinion about. But since I am wearing skirts daily, also at work, I learned a lot.
At the beginning it was not easy to think about sitting or bending down in a skirt is different than in pants, but everybody will learn it pretty fast. Since my workplace voted if pants or skirt on men looking better (62% for skirts) I know that all what we thought about in past is wrong.
January 1st, 2010 at 9:32 am
I don’t care about the look, but it seems, women like guys in kilts or skirts. Skirts are incredible comfortable, even a kilt which some of You don’t like is better than trousers.
About sitting, it depends of skirt style, lenght etc. e.g. in kilt You may sit almost the same as in trousers, in shorter skirts without the two front aprons it’s impossible and You must care.
AFAIK some other companies are introducing skirts for men.
January 10th, 2010 at 5:37 pm
Pixy boots for men in skirts looks good I dio that and good on both long and short skirts.
For guys who are in need of a little help an old shirt tied around the waist and knot at front over a mini skirt looks great on guys.
As for genda stuff fashion and fads time and place
thorugh history men wore skirts, whats with todays
slack one eyed people
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March 9th, 2010 at 2:07 pm
There are no sex differences outside of ANATOMICAL differences! Skirts/pants mere variations of leg covering. Men can’t be masculine in skirts? 9,600 skirted Romans under General Suetonius (History Channel) killed 80,000 Britons in one day. Polish American Bill Kazmaier in a kilt turned over full size sedan (engine & transmission not removed) on level surface by himself. Greek army unit in 2010 wears skirts so do Fijian cops, Bhutanese dancers, Tongans, Samoans, Tahitians, Maoris, Hawaiians, Indian Kathakali dancers, Dervishes in over a dozen Arabic nations etc all men in skirts. The conformist can’t tolerate anyone being different and resorts to artfully invented SLANDER like “cross dressing” to STOP men from changing. See extensively documented pdf file on discrimination against women in pants & men in skirts at http://www.dfwseekwoman.net
March 10th, 2010 at 12:40 pm
Indeed, there is no restriction that men have to wear pants and women skirts or even opposite.
There is just a barrier in somebodies brain which never can think out of the box, innovative or creative. Just stubborn be connected with narrow minds – but that is not sex-related.
Of course men can wear skirts, absolutely nothing wrong with it. And for sure, women can wear pants. Where is the problem, please?