Miuccia Prada Introduces Miniskirts for Men

Better late than never: after about a month of the latest issue of Purple Fashion -- Olivier Zahm's well-fed Parisian magazine as notorious for full frontal nudity as for fascinating features on a range of fashion, film, and art world alumnae -- gathering dust on my bookshelf, I finally cracked the hefty rag yesterday only to find a fantastic profile of Miuccia Prada, among other noteworthy pieces. And the interview, conducted by Massimo Torrigiani, reveals a pretty juicy piece of information about what Prada will put putting her FW10 male models in come fashion week. Simply put, you haven't seen the last of men's skirts.

“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 recalls of a recent conversation with a collaborator. “So I’m now pushing it even further, just for revenge!” Given that the trend has been gaining steam for quite a while (with Marc Jacobs publicly promoting himself as the man skirts’ seemingly biggest advocate, not to mention Huffington Post paying tribute to the trend with a “celebrity men in skirts” slide show earlier this month), you can rest assured men’s skirts may have a formidable future in fashion. (To boot, Dear Abbey has already made it clear she approves.) “Menswear should take cues from womenswear, and not just the other way around,” Prada continues. “Menswear is so limited so I’m free with my ideas. Otherwise I’d die of boredom.”