I’m thinking this looks like something worth checking out…..although I won’t lie, I had to look up Schiaparelli before deciding it was something I’d like to see. In case I’m not the only one who didn’t know anything about her, Wiki says: was an Italian fashion designer. Along with Coco Chanel, her greatest rival, she is regarded as one of the most prominent figures in fashion between the two World Wars. Starting with knitwear, Schiaparelli’s designs were heavily influenced by Surrealists like her collaborators Salvador Dalí and Alberto Giacometti.
“The Costume Institute’s upcoming exhibit ”Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations.” Meant to portray the correlations between the two iconic designers — who lived in entirely different eras but explored similar themes in their work — the show will focus on seven specific subjects that both women addressed in their clothing collections. Each subject will be the subject of a fictional “conversation” between the two women, as imagined (and simulated through cinematographic hoodoo) by film director Baz Luhrmann.” (via nymag)
Left: Miuccia Prada, spring/summer 2011. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photograph by © David Sims,
Right: Wallis Simpson in Elsa Schiaparelli, Vogue, June 1, 1937.Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photograph by Cecil Beaton, Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby’s
Left: Miuccia Prada, spring/summer 2005. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photograph by © Toby McFarlan Pond.Right: Diana Vreeland in Elsa Schiaparelli, Harper’s Bazaar, April 1937. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photograph by Louise Dahl-Wolfe. Louise Dahl-Wolfe Archive / © 2012 Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents.
Left: Miuccia Prada, spring/summer 1999. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photograph by © Toby McFarlan Pond Right: Elsa Schiaparelli, Vogue, September 15, 1938 Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photograph by Horst Horst / Vogue; © Condé Nast
Left: Miuccia Prada, autumn/winter 1996–97. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photograph by © Toby McFarlan Pond. Right: Elsa Schiaparelli, Vogue Paris, February 1927. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photograph by George Hoyningen-Huené. © R.J. Horst.
Left: Miuccia Prada, spring/summer 2006. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photograph by © Toby McFarlan Pond. Right: Elsa Schiaparelli, Vogue Paris, June 1949. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photograph by Rutledge. Rutledge @ Vogue Paris.
Left: Miuccia Prada, autumn/winter 2004–5. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photograph by © Toby McFarlan Pond Right: Elsa Schiaparelli in Elsa Schiaparelli, autumn 1931. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photograph by Man Ray.© 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.
Left: Miuccia Prada, spring/summer 2004. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photograph by © Toby McFarlan Pond. Right: Elsa Schiaparelli, Vogue, June 1, 1935. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photograph by Horst. Horst / Vogue; © Condé Nast.
Left: Miuccia Prada, autumn/winter 2002–3. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photograph by © David Sims. Right: Elsa Schiaparelli, Harper’s Bazaar, February 1935. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photograph by André Durst Harper’s Bazaar/Hearst Communications, Inc
Left: Miuccia Prada, spring/summer 2000. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photograph by © David Sims. Right: Wallis Simpson in Elsa Schiaparelli, British Vogue, July 10, 1935. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photograph by Cecil Beaton. Cecil Beaton / Vogue © The Condé Nast Publications Ltd
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