game girl advance: What is Going on with the Prada Website?

What is Going on with the Prada Website?

I was browsing for expensive things to buy last night (it all started with wanting an iMac, go figure) when I landed on Prada.com and found myself in Flash/Javascript hell. Why do people do this to web code? Do they think it's neat, or clever? Also, click the icon on the far right - the character means "film" in Japanese - and you get what appears to be a trailer for the anime movie Appleseed: Ex Machina, which opened in Japan a few days ago. Also, a random link to a Myspace page for a band called The Hours pops up.

It's confusing. I just want to see clothes. Without all this crap.

Posted by jane at October 23, 2007 08:10 AM

That site looks like an experimental HTML-art project from 1995.

I can imagine that if you spent all your time working with fashion, looking at fashion, etc., you might get kind of jaded with the clothes themselves, tap into the whole "fashion is more than clothing" idea, fall down a rabbit hole, and lose sight of your actual product. Perspective doesn't cost much, but it's sometimes in short supply.

Posted by: joshlee on October 23, 2007 09:52 AM

totally agree with you joshlee
looks like a project done by high school students with no better to do with there time.

i can understand having the appleseed trailer (maybe prada are a sponsor) but the myspace band page....well as the tree said to the lumberjack: "I'm stumped!"

doesn't really make much sense, but i suppose those myspace bands will do anything so that someone will vist their myspace page.

Posted by: Paul on October 23, 2007 12:57 PM