Topic: Michael Pitt

Memorandum
To: All Prada Employees
From: Mr. Prada

This memo is to inform all employees that we have chosen Michael Pitt as new face of our Spring/Summer 2012 Menswear campaign. I know this seems like an odd choice — selecting a man who’s wardrobe is comprised of old t-shirts stolen at dinner parties from wicker baskets in the basement marked “rags” and Salvation Army boots that have been resoled eight times, at 500% cost — but we actually have a highly thought-out strategy here. More »

In this feature, we dissect the outfits of Michael Pitt like an overly enthusiastic sixth-grader would a frog dripping with designer formaldehyde.

When I was a child, I had an invisible friend named Michael Pitt. He lived in a pillow fort I made for him in the back of my closet, and for clothing he wore old things from the rag bucket my mother kept underneath the kitchen sink. His favorite shirt was an olive green button-down that smelled like Pine Sol and had flecks of spaghetti sauce on the sleeves. He only wore it on special occasions, like when we’d make tea for the squirrels or fingerpaint our dreams onto tree bark or try to find faces in the clouds. Or when we’d take baths together. More »