In Conversation: Miuccia and ‘Schiap’
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hoyningen-Huene;Guido Harari
A preview of ‘‘Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada: On Fashion,’’ to open at the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute in New York in May, was previewed during Milan Fashion Week. Here, a 1932 portrait of the designer Elsa Schiaparelli and a 1999 image of Miuccia Prada.
MILAN — A fascinating, unexpected, potentially explosive — but absolutely imaginary — encounter will take place in New York in May, as Miuccia Prada, the Italian representative of intellect in fashion, faces off with Elsa Schiaparelli, the designer who embraced Surrealism in the 1930s and who died in 1973.
The city of Milan offered up a historic building in the Palazzo Reale on Friday for a foretaste of “Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations,” which will be shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York from May 10 through Aug. 19.
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