Prada FW 07 Natalia Chabanenko's closing look via catwalking.com

And there you have it . Prada has fired its full fuselage for Fall/Winter 2008 and it was what everyone expected but no-one quite anticipated. After a while the mannequins stopped looking like lace laden bourgeoise girls on their way to lunch and morphed into these fantastical shipwrecks barnacled in corals and shells . Opinions on the beauty or the ugliness of this are- as is the intention- divided. TI dug it because apart from the proposition of dressing a woman, there was also the visual complexity involved in dressing an idea: that is bringing an abstract concept of what clothes could look like, to life. I loved that literally 35 mins after the show, it was all the Internet via yahoo.news, catwalking.com and thefashionspot.com. That's the modern world for you and I love the buzz-words that these fashion fanatic kids are using to decode what they saw. Prada is all about whimsy and whimsy saw Catherine McNeil, Isabeli and Anouck slinking alongside the severe Prada regulars....Hooray for whimsy... But now TI is rubbing the crystal ball overtime to get some glimmer of what's brewing over at Balenciaga. Capes? Leather? Batwings? Seminary manners as a look? Time to activate the Paris cell of the Hiss Squad!

Martha Streck is indeed exclusive for Gucci this season

Another TI tipster gets it right. Hiss Squad operatives in Milan have just spotted Women Milano's Martha Streck on the premises of Gucci. More news later