PRADA: Final Fantasy

[Lucavi]

Hey, don't drag us Brits into this!

Sorry. I should have referenced the French instead.

Please accept my apologies.

And Mioko, look at you, all high and mighty on a Vidya Game forum~!! I'm impressed!

[ronin sparthos]

There's a big difference between having an actual opinion/preference regarding fashion and simply not caring about what you wear or look like. The latter seems to be a lot more prevalent in the demographic of forums like these. That's the point you missed.

Not to mention there would be a lot less hating if the exorbitantly expensive brand name was omitted.

A little bit of confidence goes a long ways when it comes to rocking unique clothing. However, confidence is a rare commodity when you're talking to people who spend a lot of their free time playing video games in a dark room. Thus, nerds generally despise clothing they don't have the confidence for, or "fashion" as a whole.

I missed a point? You made a broad, sweeping statement based on your image of this site which is at best a poor caricature of the people who visit this site. Who are you to assume what people here can/can't wear?

Someone says they don't like the clothing and that immediately means that because people here are gamers they can't 'appreciate' the clothing? What a dumb stereotype to say the least.

[Stilzkin]

Do you mean to imply that, by criticizing something, they "clearly don't like clothes"?

I mean that BG isn't exactly the most clothing loving place out there.

Those who are criticizing are more likely than not people who don't like clothes to begin with. Which is why their comments against it are simplistic.

Later on, you said so yourself that people won't necessarily buy every piece of these outfits and then wear it all at once; unfortunately, nothing in this set looks even remotely unique.

Its not my style but I know that there is people out there who would like some this stuff.

I think you are confused if you believe designers clothes is all about it being unique.

The first portrait you shared shows a man wearing what's virtually a silk tie from any department store around his neck, and a set of an old woman's 1970s-era living room curtains wrapped around his legs. Certainly, the coat looks handsome, but generic enough for no one to give a damn whether they've got one made by Prada or not.

Just because a piece of clothes is a particular style does not mean that it is the same as another piece of that style. Every brand out there has probably made a blue v neck sweater at some point. That does not mean all those sweaters are identical, they can differ in fit and quality of fabric.

I think it would be pretty stupid for designers to feel they have to reinvent the coat every other season and I'm confident that coat is uniquely Prada. I don't personally wear Prada but from the other brands I do buy I know that even in their most simplest pieces they have some signature detail about them whether that be the way they make the fabric, the fit, or the stitching. I really doubt anyone here would find that coat here to be equal to that of a similar style from a department store. You may think that the disparity in cost is huge for something that may look similar to you but for those like clothes the difference is significant.

With the scarf, I don't think it could be confused with one from a department store either. A scarf is a simpler piece so obviously there is less differences between the two but the quality will clearly differ.

Designers are suppose to provide higher quality products as well as a certain style. The department stores provide lower quality and maybe a larger array in types as they are in not obligated to be aware of fashions (though they may still be affected by them) and have no particular style that the customer is going there in particular for.

As for the second, it's also fine looking, but once again, it's incredibly generic. As if we've never seen a black suit before. What's there to be excited about?

Like I said, its impossible for them to redesign the suit completely.

That does not mean that this suit is identical to the others.

This shit isn't "high fashion," it's a bunch of overpriced renditions of "been there, done that" everyman wear.

I personally like what I guess in your opinion might be rather plain clothes. Those plain clothes though I try to find in high quality. The difference in quality is honestly very apparent and people who like clothes can tell apart someone's department store black suit from a well made black suit.

Some people care about even the most minute details; the way those pants fit at the knee and the exact shade matter to some. The fact that a "wal greens" shirt was taken and given proper fit (cheap brands always have horribe fit) and quality is cool to some.


Its like critiquing a high priced restaurant for having steak on the menu. It may be simple and in theory the exact same thing but if the restaurant is actually good you expect a better tasting steak.

Going about critiquing fashion about how its been done before is the wrong way to go about it. You either have to have a very trained eye or the piece in front of you to make such accusations. I won't lie and say that I have this sort of trained eye but I do know that calling a suit a black suit is overly simplistic.

If you want to argue about how those sort of printed shirts look bad on anyone or that Prada doesn't actually provide the quality it claims to (which may not be a conversation about this season in general) then we may be going in the right direction.

I'm not sure I would wear a printed shirt, maybe simply because I know its in right now, but I have seen people wearing them and look great. I think the scarfs are cool but I wouldn't be able to pull them off. The shoes in my opinion are a horrible design and would look bad on anyone.

[Maguspk]

The quote wars are coming.

[Enedin]

Sazh looks great, but wtf @ those shoes.

[Kerberoz]

Not understanding why ever dude has to wear an Android 17 scarf around their neck, but whatever.

because that makes it easier to photoshop the model's neck out; duh