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Title | Wallis Simpson in Elsa Schiaparelli, Vogue, June 1, 1937 |
Courtesy of | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photograph by Cecil Beaton, Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby's |
Although separated by time, Miuccia Prada and Elsa Schiaparelli - both Italian, both feminists - share striking affinities in terms of their design strategies and fashion manifestoes. Presented as an intimate "conversation", Schiaparelli and Prada aims to tease out formal and conceptual similarities between the two designers.
Striking photographs and insightful texts will illustrate the parallels between the two, including their...