1 April 2022

Prada announces new outdoor line and fragrance

(April Foolsโ€™ Day) In addition to clothing and accessories inspired by climbing, the 2XTREME4U line also features Pradaโ€™s newest fragrance: The Essence of Sending HRDSHT. Pradaโ€™s renowned designer and the projectโ€™s principal overseer and oversprayer, Gianvittorio Grandestronzetto said, โ€œIn all my years working in the fashion industry... How do you say? Ah yes, this is for sure my proudest line yet! I had moments of self doubt but I looked down at my hands and I said out loud and to the cameras: Grandestronzetto, tho itโ€™s hard, you still gotta send it! Letโ€™s go! Letโ€™s go Grandestronzetto!โ€

โ€œWe named the fragrance The Essence of Sending HRDSHT because it was this projectโ€™s crux sequence. To balance out the patchouli, we had to bottle that suffocating chalk cloud mixed with perspiration that you often find in climbing gyms, along with Janjaโ€™s tears of triumph from the Olympics. Iโ€™m telling you, this is really next level! Gucci, Fendi, Dolce and Gabbana... I donโ€™t think they can repeat this let alone downgrade it!โ€

Prada will be presenting the 2XTREME4U line this weekend as well as announcing their 2XTREME4U Super Humble Ambastardors. Rumour has it they aggressively bought a handful of climbers out of their existing endorsement contracts and are offering their top signings five-year contracts worth over seven figures.

One of Pradaโ€™s 2XTREME4U Super Humble Ambastardors who, out of humility, didn't want to be named said, โ€œErm, I was pretty sure Prada and Grandestronzettoโ€™s line was going to change climbing when I saw it. Immediately I was thinking like, oh man who is going to appreciate this new age, no sending, low point stuff that's been coming out when now thereโ€™s like this all-time super complete line. It's full send, total high point. You guys at 8a.nu are going to have to make a new Time Comparison Grading and Fashion Scale.โ€

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