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...was the text printed on several t-shirts I saw recently, which of course made me wonder, yes, who or what is prada?
Is it even a word, can´t seem to find it in any dictionary?

I think it's a company that makes clothing and accessories.

Prada is a posh Italian fashion house, just like Gucci or Cerruti, his full name is Miucca Prada I think.

Thanks, both, though I had hoped for something more interesting...

Interesting, eh? I can do that...

Prada is the name of an evil alien empire who is determined to take over the earth using bad soapie actors turned pop stars. They are based in Australia and are starting their evil plans with Britain. Kylie Minogue and that Holly Valance woman are simply the beginning! Run for your lives (and musical sensibilities)!

Re: Interesting, eh? I can do that...

Originally posted by Ode to a Grasshopper
Prada is the name of an evil alien empire who is determined to take over the earth using bad soapie actors turned pop stars. They are based in Australia and are starting their evil plans with Britain. Kylie Minogue and that Holly Valance woman are simply the beginning! Run for your lives (and musical sensibilities)!

Your wrong! Prada is a newly wed guineapig. Who, with his wife, Bagder, have decided to become the first animals to get their own pets. Sadly, it should not come to pass. When they entered the pet store they were caught by giant spacehamsters and abducted to the planet Ziorgilusa. where they became pets for a Ziorgian princess.

Not so! Prada was an Italian shoemaker who designed a child puppet. While he slept one night, a slumming Fairy Godmother happened along, and gave the puppet life. That puppet decided it wanted to become fabulously wealthy and influential. It changed its name to Silvio Berlusconi, stole Prada's small fortune in gold coins, and built your typical ultra-conservative media empire. Then, it had the old, now-penniless shoemaker evicted and thrown into jail. Berlusconi subsequently married the slumming Fairy Godmother, and gave her a talk show to keep her occupied while he took over the reins of state.

And they all lived happily ever after.

Prada is... your father!


I always wanted to say that

Prada is the result of some terrible spelling mistake, where it should in fact read Pravda, which is Russian for "Truth". Pravda was a Bolshevik daily, published in St. Petersburg and founded in April 1912 on the initiative of the St. Petersburg workers. For a long time, it was a source of political propaganda until Gorbatshov introduced the glasnost and perestrojka and it was among the first periodicals to begin solid critique of the government. With communism out of the way, "Pravda" has nowadays become a source of tabloid fantastic journalism and regularly reports on encounters of the 3rd kind. Many believe this is where the X-files tagline "The Truth is out There" comes from.

Strange. I always thought Prada was Steve Martin.