WELCOME TO FASHION AS A 2ND LANGUAGE: ARE YOU FLUENT?

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Saturday, March 27, 2010

Izat a Font In Yr Pocket or R U Just Prada 2 C Me?

Ordinary children, dressed in garments with no pedigree, sit in old-fashioned classrooms and struggle with their ABCs. Fashion's bright-and-shiny progeny, however, sport pint-sized designer outfits and strike photogenic poses as they learn their Pradalphabet. We're not kidding. Prada, in conjunction with French design firm M/M (PARIS), is offering limited-edition t-shirts bearing either the phrase PRADA/M or (by special order) individual letters, all written in the ornamental script shown above. And, yes, it's called the Pradalphabet. Apparently, the devil no longer merely wears Prada–now he writes it, too.