Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations
£30.00
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- Although separated by time, Miuccia Prada and Elsa Schiaparelli share striking affinities in terms of their design strategies and fashion manifestos
- The book presents over 200 archival and newly photographed images of the designers’ work, and includes a smaller “book within a book” that features the “impossible conversations” between the two women. Schiaparelli and Prada both share a love of Surrealism and surprise, and the book itself has been conceived as an unusual object that constructs a playful dialogue of images and commentary between two designers who never actually met
- Striking photographs and insightful texts illustrate the parallels between the two
- As a physical object the catalogue also has a Surrealist quality and is highly interactive. The book is presented in a unique size that is accessible and convenient - smaller than a typical museum catalogue, with a literary scale, like a novel - but large enough to feature lush, exquisite images. At the same time, the book is tactile and easy to handle, almost like a clutch
- The cloth cover pictures a Prada pattern of surrealistic lips, with a smaller inset image that acts as the “cover” of the book-within-book
- A cloth spine wrapped over the book’s true spine suggests the construction techniques of the fashion designers
