Metropolitan Museum of Art New York | ISBN:0300179553 | File Type: PDF, 324 pages | File size: 36.Mb | Jun. 5th, 2012
Fashion Design: Impossible Conversations Although separated by time Miuccia rada and Elsa Schiaparelli both Italian both feminists share striking affinities in terms of their design strategies and fashion manifestoes resented as an intimate conversation Schiaparelli and rada On Fashion aims to tease out formal and conceptual similarities between the two designers Striking photographs and insightf texts illustrate the parallels between the two including their preferences for interesting textiles and prints eccentric color palettes and a bold and playf approach to styling and accessories Schiaparelli in the 1920s through 50s and rada from the late 1980s to today exploited the narrative possibilities of prints sought out unconventional textiles played with ideas of good and bad taste and manipated scale for surrealistic outcomes Contemporary art plays a major role in the work of these inventive women Schiaparelli in her famous collaborations with Dali and Cocteau and rada via her Fondazione rada Blending the historic with the contemporary the catalogue brings the masterworks of both designers together into a grand conversation between the most important women fashion designers to ever emerge from Italy
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