Little Prada in the Desert #2

NYT: "[A]fter a well-attended artists' opening on Oct. 1, the 15-by-25-foot sculpture replicating a Prada store was vandalized on Tuesday night. Six purses and 14 shoes, all for right feet, disappeared...[The artists] said last week that they intended to forgo maintenance and let time ravage the $80,000 sculpture so that "50 years from now it will be a ruin that is a reflection of the time it was made."...But Mr. Maxwell said he repainted the outside - where vandals had spray-painted "Dumb" and "Dum Dum,"...and refitted a door, to be permanently locked and minus handle...The Prada handbags now have cut-out bottoms to obscure links to a security system that, if tampered with, alerts the police in Marfa and the county seat, Fort Davis...Mr. Maxwell offered an alternative security system: keeping "six or seven choice rattlesnakes inside the store."

Comments

[Ben Popken]

They will think Prada rose to fashion primacy in the early 1990s on a look epitomized by thick, square glasses and garish colors known as "Prada Ugly." The look of the early 00's has been described as that of a "chic neo-fascist army" by the New York Times.

[stieg]

i dunno if prada is a healthy environment for raddle snakes - - what will my vegetarian friends think?