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Spring 2009 Prada Runway Snakeskin Print Open Side Dress
Spring 2009 Prada Runway Snakeskin Print Open Side Dress
Spring 2009 Prada Runway Snakeskin Print Open Side Dress
Spring 2009 Prada Runway Snakeskin Print Open Side Dress
Spring 2009 Prada Runway Snakeskin Print Open Side Dress
Spring 2009 Prada Runway Snakeskin Print Open Side Dress
Spring 2009 Prada Runway Snakeskin Print Open Side Dress
Spring 2009 Prada Runway Snakeskin Print Open Side Dress
Spring 2009 Prada Runway Snakeskin Print Open Side Dress
Spring 2009 Prada Runway Snakeskin Print Open Side Dress
Spring 2009 Prada Runway Snakeskin Print Open Side Dress
Spring 2009 Prada Runway Snakeskin Print Open Side Dress
Spring 2009 Prada Runway Snakeskin Print Open Side Dress
Spring 2009 Prada Runway Snakeskin Print Open Side Dress
Spring 2009 Prada Runway Snakeskin Print Open Side Dress

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Spring 2009 Prada Runway Snakeskin Print Open Side Dress

In the Vogue review for this collection Sarah Mower noted: "Miuccia Prada had a sound bite for her Spring collection. "It's primitive," she said, "going back to what counts." ... When the chips are down, there is no one who can turn up the thermostat of subversive sexual provocation quite as high as Mrs. Prada. Her girls, their skin glistening as if on a fevered summer's night, might have been passing through on their way to or from lovers' assignations, their clothes disarranged in various states of falling-off or looking as if they might do so at any moment. Rumpled and crinkled fabrics have been appearing all over this season, but never with such sly intent. One pull of a trailing drawstring tape and, whoops! A person could find herself half naked. There was something fabulously Italian about all this shameless reveling in femininity. The fifties overtones, with the high chignons, the ruched bras, and swishing rear action in the below-knee pencil skirts, managed to channel the heyday of Cinecittà without cliché. Best of all, this is a collection destined to look even better on a woman with a real body than it does on a teen model. And that, Mrs. Prada surely knows, really is "what counts.""

 The dress is amazing and was one of the standouts in the show. These were photoed everywhere and this snake print was one of the biggest looks of the season. This dress is particularly fabulous because of its amazing cut. It has that sexy, fitted fifties feel to it and the open sides are shocking when you catch that glimpse of bare skin. The fabric is deliberately rumpled and crinkled and I love the slimming effect the panels of black on either side of the print have on the body. It skims over your curves and ends just past the knee. On the side it buttons and is partially closed over the hip area and then up the side it ties to close allowing you to tie or loosen it to fit as you please. At the top of the shoulder it ties. Really one of the stand out Prada pieces and it feels as wearable now as it did then, perhaps even more so. Excellent condition

Unlined and closes at the side as described above. Tagged a Prada 40.

Bust: 16-18" flat across from side seam to side seam
Waist: 14-16" flat across from side seam to side seam
Hips: 18-20" flat across from side seam to side seam
Length: 35.5" from neck to hem

Modern Sizing Equivalent: SML-MED

Item# DD2829

Reference Photos: (1-2) Look 26 from S/S 2009 Prada Collection.  /  (3) S/S Prada Ad Campaign by Steven Meisel.  /  (4) Racquel Zimmerman in Prada for US Vogue March 2009. Photo by David Sims.

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