Prada updates its 5-year-old icon in a special collection of MINIMAL BAROQUE sunglasses. Rooted in both tradition and innovation, Prada cultivates contrast by turning the banal precious. Through creative experimentation and meticulous craftsmanship, the basic is made brave and beautiful, and exaggeration becomes essential.
Unmistakable through their bold curves and celebrated colour ways, these spirited sunglasses give new life to the flowers and foliage motifs that grew wild in the Baroque period. Stylized plant life is abstracted into scrolling garlands that bud and branch into the defining curve of elegantly exaggerated sunglasses.
Featuring three new MINIMAL BAROQUE styles, ornate and intricate motifs of the past are refined into a single, streamlined gesture. Integrated within the frames of the sunglasses, this flourish becomes at once decorative and functional, dimensional and flat, fanciful and realistic.
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PRADA MINIMAL BAROQUE
MINIMAL BAROQUE sunglasses – SPR07T illustration
MINIMAL BAROQUE sunglasses – SPR07T model
This SPR07T style is MINIMAL BAROQUE at the height of its ornamental power, enriched by hand-applied flourishes of metal. The over-sized frames, with a double bridge and gleaming hinges, evoke the exquisite symmetry of butterfly’s wings, while the boldly curving temples captivate with spirals and stars for a distinctly feminine allure.Available in five colorways, the palette of neutral hues—black, tortoise, and ivory—is enlivened by vibrant red and spotted tortoise.
MINIMAL BAROQUE sunglasses – SPR08T illustration
MINIMAL BAROQUE sunglasses – SPR08T model
A reinterpretation of the iconic original, this redesigned style is defined by its deliberatecontrasts and playfully wide profile. Layering nuanced tones with solid-colored acetatefor a striking bas-relief effect, the silhouette gains further dimension from artfulasymmetry and elaborate curves: a visual echo to the rounded lenses. Available in threecolorways, the palette combines tortoise and black with ivory or red.
MINIMAL BAROQUE sunglasses – SPR23N illustration
MINIMAL BAROQUE sunglasses – SPR23N model
Completing the celebration is a freshly sophisticated interpretation of the original model.This new style, in glossy acetate, is MINIMAL BAROQUE at its most refined. Retaining the classic, clean-lined front, its over-sized round frames are animated by curling temples made more memorable by a bas-relief effect in two-tone acetate. Available in four colorways, the palette includes black and tortoise with spotted tortoise, ivory,and a flash of red at the temples.
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The MINIMAL BAROQUE special collection is available in Prada boutiques and throughselect high-end retailers beginning November 8, 2016.