Campaign – The Mysterious Prada Boys

Written by Carl on Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 | 2009, Campaigns, fall, fall 2009, prada

Prada has released their complete fall 2009 campaign and the boys Hedi Slimane photographed are still a mystery. If someone can ID a face or two, please step forward. The fashion gods will smile down upon you…

Pictures from Fashion Gone Rogue via Prada

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sd Said in Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 @1:24 pm

wow…they look great

pkk Said in Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 @6:55 pm

Modern day models are incessantly becoming more and more homely. Are designers looking to stray the eye from male beauty onto their clothes?

Sean S Said in Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 @3:07 am

Hedi is known for photographing young men for his diary. These guys skateboard, play in a band, or surf. I believe the models in the Prada campaign are just that. Everyday guys that happened to be in the right place and time to meet Hedi Slimane. Finding out the names of those models will be quite impossible.

Anonymous Said in Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 @3:12 am

they look more and more like a pedophiles dream to me. or some east european rent boys. slimane is going for his personal fetish. it’s getting too sick….

esperanto Said in Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 @3:17 am

they look more and more like a pedophiles dream of east european rent boys. slimane is going for his personal fetish but it’s so tiring, as it doesn’t transgress anything. it’s just superficial, empty and sort of sick

chris Said in Thursday, July 16th, 2009 @9:13 am

they all have such BIG noses! they don’t even look like proper male models to me.. just random guys, with average slim bodies and below average faces, too bad.. WHERE ARE THE MALE MODELS OF 90s???

TrendLand Said in Thursday, July 16th, 2009 @9:40 am

I worked on this shoot last May in LA, and I can tell you that none of those guys ever model before, they all has been cast in Coachella…

S. Said in Monday, August 24th, 2009 @8:22 am

I think it’s brilliant. There’s nothing wrong in using adolescents in a campaign. If the girls are 14, what is wrong with having 17 year old male models? Besides, this guys are not selling sex, they are not rented boys, they are just an idealized character created to fit the standarts of a complex society that overvalues youth. It just a natural movement in the evolution of fashion, and it’s beyond the comprehension of people that are not part of it. We have always tryed to fight time, in the faces of this sleek and angular young boys, we see what we’d like to be. Simple, emotional, curious… with all our lives ahead, with all the time in the world to make mistakes and live.
It’s not surprising that the fashion industry is so obsessed with youth.
The pictures are beautiful, and they DO sell Prada to me.
Thanks Hedi.

Ah, and by the way, I think their noses are fine!