As Jeanne Moreau’s ‘Each Man Kills the Things He Loves’ drifted in and out of Bauhaus’ haunting, ‘Bela Lugosi’s Dead’, for Spring 2011, Miuccia Prada transports you to the achromatic halls of an institution. Infusing bold strikes of color into simple contemporary pieces, the jury may still be out on whether or not the almost sadistic tracks were beckoned throughout an insane asylum or hospital setting.

Opening the show with an always expected array of fresh-faced models, using some new to the runway in their first season, a series of blues contrasted the well-lit runway. Layered, yet still building a slim silhouette, three-button suits featured jackets with cinched waists, worn over v-neck tops and the standard button-up meets tie paring. Done mainly in luxe cottons, thicker than the usual, shirts displayed horizontal incisions at neck, making for a collegiate/professional look once layered.

Moving into denim before displaying suits and separates in neutrals, with eye-catching colors to follow, contrast-stitched denim fabricated full looks, targeting a younger crowd.

With the upper-half of the Prada man still slender, Miuccia then delved into wider territory, with the show’s recurring three-button jacket now being paired with more relaxed counterparts, including Bermuda shorts and contrast placket shirts. Though, first shown within the denim range, it was not until tops and trousers both took to surgical blues, did one realize the striking similarity to medical scrubs.

A stethoscope nowhere to be found, the Prada man instead wears rounded wrap sunglasses around his neck, almost in place of a necklace. His medical bag; a monogram drawstring, attached to a leather belt.

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Above, the shows mesmerizing soundtrack, featuring the voice of Jeanne Moreau singing, ‘Each Man Kills the Things He Loves’, touching on an excerpt from ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’, by Oscar Wilde. Infused with ‘Bela Lugosi’s Dead’, by Bauhaus.

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