For #NEVERWORNS substack: the slingback from 1995 that changed the industry at the time I first saw an article on the Prada heel in the 1995 August issue of Vogue in marinarust’s “She’s Gotta Have It”. I love how Marina wrote about the shoe…such a longing…the absolute all-consuming DESIRE that she had for an object. As if this slingback was the answer to something. And then the whole entire QUEST Marina made to find the shoe…(you need to read the NEVERWORNS piece to get into it.) So, I called Marina up and she gave me the low-down. Fab. Then I was like…why is this nubby little slingback sold out? Ok, so the fall Prada 1995 collection CHANGED the industry. The glitzed ‘80s was waning and here we were having minimalism lunches at, like, Indochine. I don’t actually know this cause I wasn’t around, but this is what glo__b (Gloria Baume) a Vogue Senior Market Editor at the time relayed this to me in an interview. Prada was the thing. It redefined fashion. You can see this in a bunch of Bill...