The designer, who left his job as creative director of Rochas to head up the creative revival of Schiaparelli, is no longer with the label.
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In our exclusive clip, Marc Jacobs muses on the internet for Vogue. Plus, he dishes on that black lace Comme des Garcons Met Gala dress people are still talking about more than a year later.
Rihanna's carnival Crop Over celebrations continued yesterday in Barbados--and for once, her super revealing "outfit" wasn't the least bit out of place. {Daily Mail} Barneys's fall ads featuring Lou Doillon--and a life size marionette replica of Lou Doillon--are part cool and part... ok they're kinda creepy. {WWD} Riley Keough, granddaughter of Elvis Presley and Robert Pattinson's rumored flame, is now modeling lingerie for Australian clothing company Bonds. {HuffPo} From blogs to modeling agencies, Muslim 'Hijabistas' are showing the fashion world that modesty can be cool, and not oppressive. {WeNews}
Couture week got off to a super start--and we don't just mean Naomi Campbell's return to the Versace catwalk Sunday evening. On the first full day o
It seems like things are finally happening at Schiaparelli. A year after Diego Della Valle announced he would revive the storied label, rumors of a creative director finally being named are swirling, and today Schiaparelli has confirmed that the inimitable Christian Lacroix has been tapped to design a limited-edition capsule collection.
Kate Middleton, our favorite princess, braved the elements in a pair of $470 (that's £300) leather lined wellies, paired with Zara jeans this weekend, to go camping with some kids. {Daily Mail} Sheer, sparkly bodysuits: great in music videos, not so much live on stage as Katy Perry found out at last night's Much Music awards. {Huffington Post} Karl Lagerfeld, who loves a high collar, has created a leather one covered in black diamonds and one very large emerald. The price for this one-of-a-kind masterpiece? A mere $46,000, or £29,000. {Vogue UK}
Gwyneth Paltrow is the face of Hugo Boss's new fragrance, Boss Nuit Pour Femme. {WWD} You know who else likes dressing like Olivia Palermo and Kate Middleton? Orthodox Jews. (Yeah, we never saw that coming either.) {BuzzFeed} Everyone can finally rest easy, because Liv Tyler's lost/stolen Givenchy jacket has been found!! Praise the almighty fashion gods. {NY Post} Andrej Pejic looked the picture of a blushing he-bride modeling Rosa Clara's wedding gowns at her show in Barcelona (say: Barthelona). {The Cut}
Anna Wintour went on the Colbert Report last night, ostensibly to talk about the opening of the Costume Institute's "Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossib
The Costume Institute's "Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations" exhibit--you know, the reason for that whole over-the-top Met Gala--opens
Nearly forty years after her death, Elsa Schiaparelli is once again the designer of the moment: She's the subject of this year's Costume Institute exhibit at the Met, and now, thanks to Italian businessman Diego Della Valle, her label is set to enjoy a revival later this year, WWD is reporting.
The upcoming Met exhibit entitled Impossible Conversations involves a sort of rally back and forth between the creations of former visionary Elsa Schiaparelli and current trendsetter Miuccia Prada. The pairing originally raised a few eyebrows. There are some glaring differences between these two Italian women - time being the most obvious one. Schiaparelli closed up shop in 1954, and though innovative and highly influential, she does not have much as much of a direct conversation with the industry or women today as she once did. Meanwhile, Prada is very much alive and thriving. The brand has tremendous cultural recognition--and is in conversation, so to speak, with the industry all the time. Prada's influence is impossible to ignore. So when Miuccia wanted 50s glam and tapped fellow tastemaker and frequent collaborator Steven Meisel to plunk models in a gas station for the spring campaign, we should have realized the ripple effect this would have on fashion imagery.
Maybe you've heard about this little museum exhibit called Schiaparelli & Prada: Impossible Conversations opening soon? Hmm? We thought so. While ex
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There's an interesting new multi-media twist to the Met's upcoming "Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations" exhibit. In addition to the ex
When we first heard about the Met's upcoming exhibit, Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations, we were curious to see how the museum would
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If you thought the Met Institute's upcoming exhibit honoring both Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada seemed like a random pairing, well, that's because it kind of is. And according to WWD, Miuccia Prada is not happy about it. “It’s too formal. They are focused on similarities, comparing feather with feather, ethnic with ethnic, but they are not taking into consideration that we are talking about two different eras, and that [Schiaparelli and I] are total opposite." she told WWD, of the exhibit. "I told them, but they don’t care.” Prada has a point:
Given the record-breaking success of this year's Alexander McQueen retrospective at the Met, museums would be smart to put more fashion in their halls. And if today's piece in WWD on museums "getting fashionable" is any indication, they are. Harold Koda, curator in charge of The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, told the trade, “Clearly the critical as well as popular success of the McQueen show suggests that fashion design has a more secure place in the precincts of an art museum.” While any museum would be hard-pressed to recreate the magic that was "Savage Beauty," more fashion exhibits are popping up all over the world and several big ones are already on track to debut next year.
More details have emerged about the Met's next Costume Institute exhibit “Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada: On Fashion.” According to WWD, the exhibit will be presented as an "anachronistic conversation" between Prada and Schiaparelli, which is a concept that was inspired by the "Impossible Interviews" in Vanity Fair from the 1930s. So why Schiaparelli? The Costume Institute received some Schiaparelli pieces after it acquired the Brooklyn Museum's extensive Costume Collection in 2009, so that was the starting point. From then, it seemed to organizers that Miuccia would be a logical counterpoint--both strong women designers, both Italian, both with unique points of view, both with art world connections.
Alexander McQueen's record-breaking Savage Beauty exhibit is going to be a hard act to follow at the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute. However, we don't think these two iconic designers will disappoint. WWD has just revealed that the next Costume Institute exhibit will focus on Miuccia Prada and the late Elsa Schiaparelli. The accomplished female designers are both trailblazers and art lovers with bodies of work that are far from boring. Their originality made them two of the most influential designers in women's fashion and we can't wait to see what the Costume Institute's Harold Koda and Andrew Bolton have planned for them.
Back in the day, there were two women designers causing quite a stir at about the same time. One of them, easily a household name, was Coco Chanel and I think we all know how that turned out. The other is slightly more elusive, but equally as important to the industry. Her name was Elsa Schiaparelli and to say she had a flare for the dramatic is most definitely an understatement. While Ms. Chanel was freeing women from antiquated silhouettes, Elsa was making us look at fashion with a different lens--a surreal lens. She's most known for teaming up with artists like Salvador Dalí: Consider it like the first version of the H&M collabs. Aside from rubbing elbows with some of the finest surrealists, she had a flair for innovation--to Elsa, a shoe could be a hat, a lobster was a perfect addition to a dress and a bow could be just as pretty if it were simply an illusion. So let's give it up for master of pattern, print and all things hot pink, Elsa Schiaparelli.
The Costume Institute just announced their Spring 2010 exhibition and the hosts for the Gala Benefit (to be held on May 3.) This year Anna will be sha