{"id":1531,"date":"2012-02-03T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lulus.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/prada-takes-high-fashion-to-the-highway\/"},"modified":"2012-02-03T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T09:00:00","slug":"prada-takes-high-fashion-to-the-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lulus.com\/blog\/fashion\/prada-takes-high-fashion-to-the-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Prada Takes High Fashion to the Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\">&nbsp;I&#8217;m not gonna lie, I&#8217;ve been to a few hot rod shows in my day, so when I saw <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.style.com\/fashionshows\/review\/S2012RTW-PRADA\">Prada&#8217;s Spring 2012 Ready-to-Wear<\/a> collection, the little girl in the rumble seat inside me let out a little squeal of glee. Finally, fashion that my dad might even appreciate&#8230;.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\">&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/Shooes.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\">All the initial hype I read was totally shoe-centric, and they deserve it, but hello! Look at how great <em>everything<\/em> is!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/Prada1.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"211\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/Prada2.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\">I love how she incorporated the classic car motif in so many ways, yet makes the traditionally masculine concept seem so feminine and sweet. Think muscle car-meets-pin-up, with a little fifties housewife mixed in. Prints, micro prints, racing stripes, flames, and full-on hot rod decals and embroidery&#8230; Oh my! And the color palette! Who wants to hop in my &#8217;57 Chevy with me and speed on down to the malt shop? (No, I don&#8217;t actually have a &#8217;57 Chevy, or know where you&#8217;d find a malt shop nowadays).<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"314\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/Prada3.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"615\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/CarDecals.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"314\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/Prada4.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\">But really, let&#8217;s get back to the shoes, am I right? Spoilers, wings, chrome, flames, and even tail lights, plus the occasional bow or jewels? I could gush for hours.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/Shooooes.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/Shooooooooes.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/Shooooooooooes.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\"><span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\"><span>(Images courtesy of <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.style.com\/fashionshows\/complete\/S2012RTW-PRADA?page=2\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\"><span>Style.com<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\"><span> &amp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bitrebels.com\/design\/when-prada-uses-old-classic-cars-to-design-high-heels\/\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\"><span>BitRebels<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\"><span>)<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;I&#8217;m not gonna lie, I&#8217;ve been to a few hot rod shows in my day, so when I saw Prada&#8217;s Spring 2012 Ready-to-Wear collection, the little girl in the rumble seat inside me let out a little squeal of glee. Finally, fashion that my dad might even appreciate&#8230;. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; All the initial&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lulus.com\/blog\/fashion\/prada-takes-high-fashion-to-the-highway\/\" title=\"Read Prada Takes High Fashion to the Highway\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":13537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[75,4351,42161,73,4350,4352,578,74,4353,68,4349],"class_list":["post-1531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fashion","tag-accessories","tag-classic-cars","tag-fashion","tag-handbags","tag-high-heels","tag-hot-rods","tag-prada","tag-purses","tag-runway-fashion","tag-shoes","tag-spring-2012-readytowear"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Prada Takes High Fashion to the Highway - Lulus.com Fashion Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lulus.com\/blog\/fashion\/prada-takes-high-fashion-to-the-highway\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Prada Takes High Fashion to the Highway - Lulus.com Fashion Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; &nbsp;I&#8217;m not gonna lie, I&#8217;ve been to a few hot rod shows in my day, so when I saw Prada&#8217;s Spring 2012 Ready-to-Wear collection, the little girl in the rumble seat inside me let out a little squeal of glee. 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