Prada Will Let You Design Your Own Micro Soles

For the Spring/Summer of 2011, Miuccia Prada introduced a brogue like none that had walked before it.

Under the iconic wing tip would live a mille-feuille of support comprised of a thin layer of raffia and a double bed of orange and white foam Micro sole. For seasons past the shoe’s inception, the model would be made and remade until its unofficial induction into the Prada hall of fame. A totem of the brand’s identity and reliable investment for consumers cross-continent, the shoe would become the flatform that had heretofore inspired pseudo-protégés from neighboring houses, giving rest to the female calf while celebrating shin support.

And a definitive six seasons later, the Micro sole zealots of yore and today are being given an opportunity to tail0r-make their own shoe with a made-to-order project that alludes to a unique brand of trust one of fashion’s most important matriarchs seems to be instilling in her customers. It should be noted that the design process on the Micro sole doesn’t exactly provide a carte-blanche; though the shoe can be made in 32 different variations, that’s just it — sky is not the limit. But as it turns out, that’s a good thing.

While there is still substantial variety to choose from — shoe tops come in a range of two-tone and single colors that run a gamut from the brand’s indigenous tobacco to a more flamboyant mango as well gold, silver and several exotic skins, and the soles come in five different variations to compliment the respectively different shoe tops — it takes trying to construct the perfect pair of Prada brogues to realize that no one can do it quite the way Ms. Prada does.

Of course, there’s also the sense of triumph that comes with having decided on a combination. It almost feels like you’ve become an initiated member of a club called Prada, like with the mere inscription of your initials, embedded into the shoe, right next to the Prada logo, they’re vowing and you’re vowing that you’ll be in it for the long haul.

Prada’s Micro sole shoe project is at the shop’s Beverly Hills location and at Holt Renfrew Yorkdale in Canada this month. The program will move to the Miami Design District Prada location for the month of December.