I think that the handbag folks at Prada and I need to have a little conversation about the Prada Perforated Roll Bag. I have some thoughts, and they would probably best be expressed in private. And by “in private,” I mean “after the jump.”
Where do I even start?
Miuccia & Co., we have a problem here. Prada turns out some fine handbags, no doubt about it, but I think it might be time for the collection to refocus on designing a few truly great bags instead of making a huge collection of bags wherein a lot of them are just…mind-boggling. In a bad way.
There’s no reason that a bag that looks like it was made to coordinate with a University of North Carolina basketball jersey should be produced by a top fashion house and marketed to grown women for over a thousand dollars. The whole premise is mildly insulting. Come to think of it, this thing also bares a striking resemblance to a pencil bag that I had in elementary school, with the addition of some oddly long handles.
It disappoints me that the same people that were responsible for the utterly genius and gorgeous Gauffre bags are the ones that have now come up with what we see here – they can do a lot better, and we all know it. Buy through Saks for $1295.
This bag is horrific unless they’re marketing it to teenagers. Bleh!
Maybe it’s a joke?
That’s all kinds of ugly. Even worse, it looks cheap and it probably costs a fortune. Fail.
Wow, what a fail =P
They would have saved it with colour coordinating shorter straps or just one long shoulder strap…but this?? Straps for grown-ups and a bag for school children…I don’t think they could have created something weirder or uglier.
The little holes make it a hundred times worse, it really looks like a basketball jersey (although it would look good at Nuggets games, I admit- I’m not paying thousands of dollars for a bag that matches a team)
What the heck Miuccia? The bag is so fugly, honestly, if I saw it I’d probably think it was a well-made knockoff.
It looks like a knock-off you buy in Chinatown or from a guy on the street.
What is this?!
I was hoping it was going to be an old old old season bag that ended up on a discount website, but it is not. This is on Saks!! Really not good, in any way.
Not only is it on Saks, but it’s in the New Arrivals section. It’s current season.
Just the name of it makes me cringe. ROLL bag. Yuck! =[
They might as well just make it into a pencil case-I’m sure more people would buy it that way.
Disappointing.
http://thegreygoddess.blogspot.com/
I like the bag
………. colorful and cheerful 
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I feel sorry for PRADA. Where the hell do they get the designs from. I love the classic Prada bags with cool leather, but this one so weired for 1200$ better buy LV
This looks like a FAKE prada bag!!!
http://heidi-tan.blogspot.com
What was she thinking???
UGLIEST PRADA BAG IN EXISTENCE.
NO! Why has this happened?!? Perforated bags require a certain finesse to actually be pulled off… and this bag is seriously lacking.
I think Prada has lost their way since the Fairy bag season for the most part — could not agree with you more that this is truly bad and not in a fashion forward, oh we’ll get it in a year way. Just in a truly bad why did she think frizzy hair was interesting way.
Cut PRADA some slack! IRL, it looks very casual and very resort!
not sure if many people would agree but the bag has a nice n playful look!…good for a casual outing! i wud carry a leather bag such as a hidesign on those evening kinda outings but wouldnt mind experiment with this one as well
I went to see the real thing in Milan last week. It is ugly. The little “holes” on the bag makes the white look grey actually…not a big fan.