After all, Prada is a brand that thrives on being contrary and surprising, on the concept of "ugly beauty", on thoughtful dressers and challenging clothes.
Their deconstructed look of voluminous, purposely tattered and intellectually challenging clothes set a new direction for fashion, particularly influencing a group of young Belgian designers, altering their attitudes on what fashion could be.
The possibilities are endless - from office meeting rooms to smaller domestic spaces, or changing rooms for spatially challenged clothes shops.
They also have flashes of female solidarity, as in "Throw Me a Curve," which challenges "clothes hanger lollipop" models and insists, "Girls are shapely by design".
"It is challenging to create clothes for people who perhaps don't have the perfect body, who aren't a size 38, and to put those into the collection too.
Stan is the polar opposite of his gay predecessor at Sterling Coo - Sal. Undeterred, Peggy spits "You gonna work or stare at pictures of women who can't stare back?" Which brings us to my favorite scene... Peggy, never intimidated or demoralized, brings herself to his level and strips off her clothes, challenging him to do the same.
And at Federated Department Stores, which owns Macy's and Bloomingdale's, the chief executive, Terry J. Lundgren, said in an interview that selling men's clothes was "challenging" these days.
One outsize sheet of fiberboard was covered in magazine tear sheets showing casually posed models in loosefitting jackets, baggy striped shorts and pencil skirts; another was plastered with photographs of adolescents in the natty clothes and challenging attitudes of the 1960s London youth quake.
Yohji Yamamoto's collection was less well received, partly because of the tortuous silence that accompanied the models on the catwalk, but mainly because his clothes were rigorously challenging.
As just one example, emerging technology to find weapons or explosives hidden beneath clothes is devilishly challenging.
What about a "refashion" challenge, using clothes or furniture thrifted from the Goodwill?
