Naïf Chic

Elsa Schiaparelli: We shouldn't be afraid of age, but wear our clothes with youth and innocence…
Miuccia Prada: Not real innocence, but as a choice. Innocence as a choice.

From the book Schiaparelli & Prada: Impossible Conversations 

(Metropolitan Museum of Art).

Here you can watch the video from the exhibit, directed by Baz Luhrmann, with more great quotes... Which one is your favorite?

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Elsa Schiaparelli: No debemos temerle a la edad, sino llevar nuestra ropa con juventud e inocencia…

Miuccia Prada: No con inocencia real, sino como una elección. Inocencia por elección.

Del libro, Schiaparelli & Prada: Impossible Conversations (Metropolitan Museum of Art). 

Después de ver el video, dirigido por Baz Luhrmann, ¿cuál de las frases de estas dos mujeres es su favorita?

Miuccia Gatsby

What an amazing surprise it was for me to find out that Miuccia Prada, designer of Prada and MiuMiu, collaborated with costume designer Catherine Martin on the costumes for The Great Gatsby movie.

I love Carey Mulligan's makeup as Daisy Buchanan.

I'm super excited  for this movie, not only for the costumes but because Carey Mulligan is in it. You may, or not, know she is definitely my favorite actress, I love how she dresses and as a hostess at the Met Gala honoring Miuccia Prada and her exhibit she didn't dissapoint, dressed obviously in Prada.

These three pics were taken from this site, it has great shots of the movie.

Prada worked with some dresses from her old collections and revisited them with a 20s aesthetic. This collaboration is super exciting for fashion people. The other interesting thing? How the movie has already inspired collections based on the fashions form this era. This spread from WhoWhatWear is a great example.

What's not exciting is that the release date was moved from December to the next summer. Let's hope they don't push it back again! I need to see the clothes!

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Fue una increíble sorpresa para mí el enterarme de que Miuccia Prada, diseñadora de Prada y MiuMiu, colaboró con la vestuarista Catherine Martin en la película The Great Gatsby.

Estoy súper emocionada por esta película, no solamente por los hermosos vestuarios, también por que Carey Mulligan sale en ella. Puede que lo sepan, o no, pero es sin duda mi actriz favorita. Me encanta cómo se viste y en la Gala del Met no fue la excepción, en Prada obvio, al ser anfitriona del evento en el que se rindió tributo a Miuccia Prada y se presentó su exhibición.

Prada rediseñó algunos de sus vestidos de colecciones pasadas (tanto de Prada como de MiuMiu) para adecuarlos a la década de los 20. Obviamente esta colaboración es muy especial para la gente que le interesa la moda. ¿Otra cosa interesante? La forma en que la película, incluso antes de estrenarse, ya está influenciando a los diseñadores para crear colecciones inspiradas en esta glamorosa era.

Pero bueno, siempre hay algo que aminora la emoción. En este caso, el retraso del estreno de la película que cambió de diciembre al próximo verano. ¡Esperemos que no se atrase más porque urge ver los vestuarios!

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!