Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations

Andrew Bolton, curator, The Costume Institute, MMA

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.

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