This weeks summer Friday afternoon free we spent at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see the exhibition Schiapparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations. As advised by employees at Banana, we read the small print when paying to get in the met and paid ten dollars for the three of us to enter as opposed to the advised donation on 12 dollars each...we are students!
The exhibition was really unique and cleverly put together with films playing showing conversations between Miuccia Prada and Elsa Schiapparelli (played by an actress of course). These iconic women discuss their opinions on how a woman should dress covering surrealism to Postmodernism and "Ugly Chic". My favourite section was probably the "Waist Up/Waist Down" argument where Schiapparelli chooses to draw attention to the top half of the body with extravagant hats and heavily embroidered jackets whereas Prada puts more emphasis on the lower half of the body with fancy footwear and as she states "ugly" colours.
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