Friday, May 25
I am against museums and exhibitions in fashion. One woman said to me — ‘In my world, the world of art’ — so I said: ‘Oh, don’t you make dresses anymore?’ A thin smile and then: ‘If you call yourself an artist, then you are second-rate.’
-Karl Lagerfeld: the Telegraph, 2012
(Image: ‘Schiaparelli And Prada: Impossible Conversations’ at the MET)
Art is art. Fashion is fashion. However, Andy Warhol proved that they can exist together.
-Karl Lagerfeld: NYT, 2008
(Image: ‘Schiaparelli And Prada: Impossible Conversations’ at the MET)
Wednesday, May 16
Views of Tomas Saraceno’s “Cloud City” at the Met.
(I love when the Met installs sculpture on it’s roof that is reminiscent of playgrounds-forts-and other fun child-like imaginative forms…fun to look at, fun to climb, interesting to think about)
Wednesday, October 12
BREAKING NEWS! the MET+Miuccia Prada+Elsa Schiaparelli=
a visually interesting, culturally important, exhibition…
Via the Met’s Press room this morning:
New York, October 12, 2011) – The spring 2012 exhibition organized by The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada: On Fashion, it was announced by the Museum today. The exhibition, on view from May 10 through August 19, 2012 (preceded on May 7 by The Costume Institute Gala Benefit), will explore the striking affinities between these two Italian designers from different eras. Inspired by Miguel Covarrubias’s “Impossible Interviews” for Vanity Fair in the 1930s, curators Harold Koda and Andrew Bolton will originate fictive conversations between these iconic women to suggest new readings of their most innovative work.
This is exciting news and is important on a societal level that extends far beyond pure fashion, art, and their respected industries-the brilliance, intelligence, merit, and innovation of these two female figures is astonishing-this promises to be an exhibition to remember.
