Fashion is/as art (part 1).

I tend to get into discussions about fashion being art. I hate when people say it's not without giving any thought to it. It is even one of the themes in the "Impossible Conversations" between Miuccia Prada and Elsa Schiaparelli in the Met exhibition. Schiaparelli thinks fashion is art, Prada doesn't. It's one of those discussions that I rather not have anymore, because I always end up upset. So while this issue is settled by someone else, I will be reviewing the fashion exhibitions (in museums!) I've seen this summer.

Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations
The clothes are beautiful, although I really wanted to see the lobster dress Schiaparelli designed with Salvador Dalí, but the conversations are also super interesting. I also found it very interesting that there were not as many people as in the McQueen exhibition last year. I guess people are not really interested in fashion unless the designer has a tragic ending.

 The Schiaparelli lobster dress.

The lobster dress Miuccia Prada designed for Anna Wintour to wear at the Met gala. Which lobster dress do you prefer?

The exhibition is divided in themes like 'The Exotic Body' or 'Naïf Chic'. Each section has a video where the two designers discuss the themes. It's curated beautifully, and of course no pictures were allowed at the exhibit but I found some good ones online.

 

The clothes from the exhibit worn by models for Vogue Magazine.

The Exotic Body

Ugly Chic

Naïf Chic (maybe my favorite section, full of creatures)

My favorite impossible conversation is "Hard Chic" because I agree with the idea of woman they describe, watch it below. And you can watch all the conversation videos, directed by Baz Luhrmann, here.

Stay tuned for more fashion as art!

Think Pink!

Yesterday while (still) writing my thesis I came upon the color called "Mexican Pink", 'invented' by Mexican fashion designer from the fifites Ramón Valdiosera. Of course, pink is my favorite color so after this and the "Think Pink" scene in Funny Face, I knew I had to do a post on it.

A still from the Think Pink sequence in Funny Face.

As I told you, last weekend I went to an Audrey Hepburn movie marathon. One of the three movies was Funny Face. In one of the first scenes, Quality magazine editor, Regina George, sings about the color when she decides that the next issue needs to be all pink. Think Pink! has beautiful images (see them for yourself below). And so I decided that she's exactly the kind of editor I want to be some day. Probably without the singing.

And then Refinery29 compared Anna Wintour to Regina George (I always get super excited when I get a reference to something) because she supposedly made all Vogue editors wear pink to the Met Gala, which was yesterday. And, which by the way, was co-hosted by one of my favorites: Carey Mulligan.

Some of Schiaparelli's designs with her signature pink on them.

But back to pink, Schiaparelli Shocking Pink, that is. The reason Wintour (supposedly) made her editors do this is the fact that the gala honors Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada's exhibition: Impossible Conversations. Schiaparelli's favorite color was, drumroll please, pink. Shocking Pink, to be exact. So there you go.

There were some pink moments at last night's gala. This are my favorite. (Besides all the photographers yelling, that was the best part of the live streaming).

Model Coco Rocha with pink hair (I need to try this again), nails, and shoes. The jumpsuit is vintage Givenchy and was worn by Elizabeth Taylor, and bought at an auction.

Emily Blunt (who I've loved ever since The Devil Wears Prada) in Calvin Klein with husband John Krasinski. And SJP's dress.

Lena Dunham, of the HBO show Girls, wearing beatufil pink shoes. I love that she didn't go pink all the way but had this detail. And so did Mr. Hamish Bowles (Vogue editor-at-large) with the jacket and socks.

Sarah Jessica Parker wearing Valentino with Mr. Valentino. 

And my best dressed award has to go to Karlie Kloss in Jason Wu. By now you probably know how much I love him but this dress is just too beautiful for words. It's definitely my favorite. 

Please know that I'm now taking donations so that next year I can pay the $25,000 ticket to attend. Meanwhile, think pink!