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39 unusual facts about Prada


Adriana Abenia

Abenia began her career as a model in Milan, where she has worked with designers such as Armani and Prada.

Castello Cavalcanti

Starring Jason Schwartzman as an unsuccessful race car driver who crashes his car in an Italian village, the 8-minute film was filmed at Cinecittà in Rome, Italy and financed by Prada.

Electroboy

He became Newcomer of the Year, working for labels such as Prada, Gucci, and Dolce & Gabbana.

Fabrizio Viti

From 1999, Fabrizio Viti worked for about 5 years for the Italian Fashion House Prada.

Hyundai Genesis

The Genesis Prada was an extremely limited (3 units) version of the Genesis sedan produced with European fashion label Prada.

Love Thy Trophy

Meanwhile, Meg acquires a Prada purse with money from her job, where she falsely claims that baby Stewie is her neglected son, subsequently getting him placed in a foster home; the neighbors resolve their differences and re-obtain Stewie, losing Meg's Prada purse in the process.

Michael Canitrot

Canitrot creates custom sound designs for luxury brands such as Dior, Cartier, Versace, D&G and Prada, and provides live music and performance for some of the worlds most prestigious catwalk shows.

Prada gender discrimination case

Tokyo Press Conference - On April 19, the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan (FCCJ) organized a press conference inviting international press for the first time after the women's rights civil lawsuit was filed against Prada at Tokyo District Court.

After that, Prada cut her health benefit and pension plan, everything.

Prada didn’t know how to increase sales and came up with an idea of forcing staff to purchase expensive $1,000 Prada product to boost the sales.

Prada H.R. Manager then, told her she was creating trouble by voicing these complaints about company policy, making up a story, bothering people’s work and because of these troubles, she was getting demoted and transferred from senior executive to salesperson.

“For Prada, fashion, luxury and style have always been aspects of a project that goes beyond production of clothes, footwear and handbags. Interest and careful observation of the world, society and culture are at the core of Prada’s creativity and modernity. This has pushed Prada beyond the physical limitations of boutiques and showrooms, leading us to interact with diverse, seemingly distant worlds, and introducing, very naturally, a new way of creating fashion.”

Rina Bovrisse graduated from Parsons The New School for Design and, during her 18-year fashion career, worked at some of the world’s largest luxury fashion companies including Chanel SA and Prada USA.

Judged: October 26, 2012 - The judge Reiko Morioka dismissed, siding with Prada.

Prada Group's 80.8% sales income came from their retail channel in 2013 and Prada Japan largely operated through the retail channel.

Countersuit - On July 2, as a result of this media exposure, Prada countersued Bovrisse, demanding she pay nearly $800,000 for falsely claiming to the media that Prada had engaged in sexual harassment.

Prada responded by purging her from the company, accusing her of mental illness and escalate it until she never came back.

In 2009, Bovrisse was relocated from New York to Tokyo by Prada Group to work for their corporate headquarters in Japan.

Filed: March 19, 2010 – Labor complaint moved up to a civil case against Prada for violating women's rights.

Prada Japan's CEO and H.R. Manager sent her home, accused her of unexcused absence and firing was her imagination.

Judgement: Judge Morioka stated that the demonstrated level of discrimination was acceptable for Prada and did not warrant compensation for emotional distress.

Secret Tape Attempts - Prada Group secret taped Bovrisse's meeting with the UN officers and female NGO.

In 2009, Bovrisse's assistant reported she got sexually harassed by Prada Milan employee relocated to Tokyo and tried to get into her room at the hotel on a business trip.

Prada Group used tactics of low human rights jurisdiction of women’s rights in Japan instead of taking a responsible action as multinational corporation.

H.R. Manager told her lawyer, “Oh yes, we did talk about resignation. She was the one who said that she feels really bad that she created all this trouble at work, so she wanted to resign” The lawyer told him that “the last conversation she had, she had recorded and printed it on paper, and there is no conversation of resignation.” Prada's H.R. person hung up the phone.

Prada Group admitted to sexual harassment in the court testimonies of CASE 1 and 2 but continued countersuing Bovrisse for "Voicing against sexual harassment damaged Prada's brand image".

On Sept. 29, 2009, the Prada Japan H.R. manager came to Bovrisse's office at 7 p.m. and said, “Can I talk to you for a second?”

A few days later after she submitted the evidences, she was called in the office by the Prada Japan CEO and fired for "Bringing negative energy to the company by voicing sexual harassment".

Filed: December 10, 2009 – Bovrisse filed a labor dispute against Prada on sexual harassment and discrimination against women violating women's rights at workplace.

Prada Group demanded Bovrisse to pay claiming that she controlled the global media and influenced the worldwide journalists to damage Prada's image.

Prada Japan CEO Davide Sesia toured some of Japan’s 40 shops alongside newly hired Bovrisse.

Querelle Jansen

Marc Jacobs, Burberry, Costume National, H&M, Hugo Boss, Prada, and Miu Miu have all chosen her for their advertisement campaigns.

Richard Martino

A major earner for the Gambino family, Martino owned expensive homes in Harrison, New York and Southampton, New York, wore Prada brand shoes, and drove an expensive Mercedes-Benz automobile.

Rusty Joiner

He became well known in the fashion industry very quickly and modelled for Prada, Abercrombie and Fitch, American Eagle, Levi's and Powerade.

Stefan Siegel

Followed by a modelling career (he appeared in campaigns and catwalk shows for Prada, Gucci, BMW, K-Swiss and Calvin Klein), Stefan started working for companies such as Ernst & Young and Sal. Oppenheim in Switzerland, and the Merrill Lynch M&A Investment Banking group in London specialising on the Consumer & Retail sector.

Stuart Weitzman

François Kress, who was associated with The Row, Prada, Miu Miu USA, and Bulgari America, has been named global president of Stuart Weitzman Holdings LLC.

The Thunder, Perfect Mind

A shortened version of the film was used in a Prada advertisement with Canadian supermodel Daria Werbowy, to promote the launch of the fashion house's first perfume.

You Better Not Waste My Time

An example of this is found in the line "I love my Nike Air, but now movin onto Gucci and Prada".

Zebrawood

The extensive use of zebrawood in Prada's flagship Manhattan store in 2002 resulted in protests from environmentalists and a promise from Prada never to use wood from endangered forests again.


Aïshti

Opened by Tony Salamé in 1989, Aïshti has grown from a single high-end clothing store into a chain with various branches throughout Lebanon, selling luxury brands including Prada, Miu Miu, Yves Saint Laurent, Dolce & Gabbana, Dior, Sergio Rossi, Roberto Cavalli, Marc Jacobs, Marni, Burberry, Fendi, Chloé and others.

Asturias Offensive

Opposing them, the Republicans had the Army of the Norh, led by the Colonel Prada, with the XIV Army Corps led by Francisco Galán (8,000–10,000 men) and the Colonel Linares's XVII Army corps (35,000).

Drew Fuller

Deciding to wait a few years, Fuller eventually entered the modeling world at age sixteen and quickly became a top model for such companies as Prada, Club Med, and Tommy Hilfiger.

Enzo Cilenti

He also performed at The Royal Court in a series of plays written and directed by Russian artists entirely in Russian; in Thai ballet as Orpheus in Backpacker Orpheus, a play devised entirely from people’s experiences in the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake; and in conceptual theatre for new-writing company Paines Plough in a series of shows (including a one man show) commissioned over a number of seasons by Miuccia Prada to showcase collections for her Miu Miu line at Milan Fashion Week.

Hammerwood Park

The house is often used for filming including pop videos for The Darkness, Victoria Beckham, Melanie C, Prada, fashion shoots for Vogue, John Lewis catalogues and other magazines, and in 2007 the horror movie Knife Edge, as well as London Boulevard in 2009.

Margretta Dietrich

Dietrich moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1927 with her sister, Dorothy Stewart, an artist, and bought the Juan Jose Prada House on Canyon Road.

Nataniel Aguirre

Born in the Hacienda de Huayllani, in the department of Cochabamba, the fourth of five children, he was the son of the financier and Bolivian politician Miguel María de Aguirre and María Manuela González de Prada, who died when he was only three years old.

NESARA

According to some Ascended Master Teaching proponents such as Joshua David Stone, Sheldan Nidle, and Luis Prada, Sananda is the "galactic name" of Ascended Master Jesus, which he uses in his role as Commander-in-Chief of the Ashtar Command flying saucer fleet.

Palisene

Westcor proposed to over 100 luxury designers in New York over the 2005/2006 Winter with unconfirmed interest from Hermès, Prada, Giorgio Armani, Barneys Co-Op, and BVLGARI.

Shopping in Seoul

It is lined with stores of luxury brands, such as Cartier's first flagship store in South Korea, named Cartier Maison, MCM Haus flagship store, 10 Corso Como, Ermenegildo Zegna, Salvatore Ferragamo, Louis Vuitton, Prada, Burberry; as well as outlets for 3.1 Phillip Lim, Martin Margiela and Tory Burch and Korean designer Son Jung-wan.

Silk Street

As a result, five global brand-name giants, which included Prada, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Burberry were granted compensation of 20,000 yuan (US$2500) each from the landlord and five of its stall holders on April 14, 2006.

Valentine, Texas

Valentine is also home to the unusual sculpture Prada Marfa, which mimics a Prada store and which was installed in 2005 on the town's main street, California Avenue (US Route 90).

Viaţa ca o pradă

Viaţa ca o pradă (Life as prey) is a 1977 novel by Romanian author Marin Preda.