“Schiaparelli and
Prada: Impossible Conversations,” Saturday, May 12, 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
In May, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will open “Schiaparelli and
Prada: Impossible Conversations,” linking Elsa Schiaparelli, the leading
designer of the Surrealist movement, with Miuccia Prada, herself a
formidable patron of the arts.
Andrew Bolton, curator, The Costume Institute, MMA
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
The Costume Institute's latest exhibition explores the
affinities between Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada, Italian
designers from different eras. Andrew Bolton will address the ways in
which both women employed unconventional textiles, colors, and prints to
play with conventional ideas of good and bad taste, and how they
exploited whimsical fastenings, fanciful trompe l'oeil details, and
deliberately rudimentary embroideries for strange and provocative
outcomes.
Admission to Members' free lectures is by ticket, obtainable in
advance by calling the Membership Office at 212-650-2620 or emailing meghann.mckale@metmuseum.org.
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