Prada comes before a fall.

"It's a bargain," she sighs,

"I must have it, so sequinned, 

so shiny and bright 

but for now, just for now,

though I'm loath to admit,

'tis a tad, just a tiny tad tight."

"How smart," he remarks

to the mirror, "such a perfectly

handcrafted shoe, 

no doubt in my mind 

I must have it, in fact 

to be sure I'll have two!"

"So together," they croon, 

"just like twin set and pearl

with the prettiest tint to our hair,

and our manicured life is stress 

free, without strife, aren't we quite 

the most perfect matched pair."

"We have riches," they crow,

"careful culled all our years

on the corporate path we have trod,

but our charity beginneth

and endeth at home

so the rest we have left up to God!"

And thus, it is how such emporia,

from vainglorious desires

strike it rich;

'tis Vanity Fair for the masses,

grandiose empires 

of quite pointless glitz,

where the acme

for those so afflicted

is the taking of tea at the Ritz.

 

Reviews

[R J Askew]

Gulp, I've heard of Prada. And I've heard of the Devil wearing it. But .. shhhh .. what is it? (Exits to do a swift google.) OK I've just checked out Pds website. I see five models walking stage right to left, each carrying a small handbag. And I see a zillion lenses focussing on them. Eieeeee! Double gulp. Yeah, consumerism, branding, wanting, needing, craving. I've just checked out the image again and some of the people in the audience are applauding the models. I note that most of those in the audience are wearing dark hues.

[....................]

The epitome of the stereotypical rich with their designer dresses and shoes, giving only to themselves while leaving the rest around them to God. I really enjoy the way have captured the pompous glitz and glamour in order to expose the truth of what really drives the corporate pariahs in society - take, take, take and give nothing. Wonderful!

[Jimmy Yetts]

Big-city successful seems like just a bunch of increasingly time-consuming bullshit details.
"Prada comes before a fall" is a smart, softly sophisticated offering--an indication, to me, that the woman knows whereof she speaks.
And she speaks in high-level poetry, worthy of the slickest of pages.

[Beccy]

Thanks WK. I've never been one for designer labels.

Beccy.

[W.k.kortas]

What the wise and wonderful Ed said. There is the veneer of whimsy here, but a great deal of truth and wickedly wry observations lay just below the surface.

[Beccy]

Thanks Edward. Eighteen times cute, I like that.


Beccy.

[Ed Hart]

this is about eighteen times cute, and more than that in truth