Edited by Jessica Lapidos
Miuccia Prada took a deep dive into her nylon and satin-lined, leather embossed vaults, and came up driving her hot rod with Elsa Schiaparelli, chatting impossibly the whole way to the CFDA Met Gala. Miu also brought along her favorite bags since ’91, and is giving us a chance we previously thought impossible: to get vintage Prada, immaculately new.
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
- Christina! Bring me the heels! Steel your nerves and hide the wire hangers to take a peek inside Joan Crawford‘s shoe closet. [Stylelist]
- In anticipation of The Costume Institute‘s upcoming “Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations” exhibit, Vogue threw some models in Prada collections from spring 1996 to fall 2011. [Vogue]
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If you’re like this gal, you’ve always wanted/desired/demanded a ticket to the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute Gala. Well get ready for the next best thing as this year’s Gala red carpet will be live streamed.
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Art and fashion go together like champagne and caviar – both delectable and both delicious. Some of the world’s greatest and most innovative fashion designers have turned to fine art pieces for inspiration. From screen printed soup cans to Piet Mondrian’s primary color-charged grids, wearing art on your sleeve is the coolest way, in our opinion, to express yourself. Check out four fab fashion pieces inspired by art and channel your inner gallery to come out and play.
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
Way before Takashi Murakami splattered paint all over Louis Vuitton, Salvador Dalí and Elsa Schiaparelli pioneered the artist and designer collaboration.
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Forbes Magazine, that wealth of celebrity-earnings knowledge, has published its 25th annual list of the world’s billionaires — all 1,226 of them. Their combined net worth is $4.26 trillion, or to put things in perspective: about a third of the U.S. national debt; or if they decided to break off and form their own country, Billionaire Island, the world’s fourth largest GDP. Besides Spanx founder Sara Blakely‘s debut, the fashion industry made a decent showing on the list with Miuccia Prada returning after a six-year absence.
Edited by Jessica Lapidos
Miuccia Prada has greased her lightening for the go. In fire bolt shoes and heartbreakingly ornate Susie Homewrecker dresses, the Prada Spring 2012 campaign video, shot by Steven Meisel, is a proper glare-down at the gas station. In effects like lacquered tail light frames and appliqués of dimensional lace, they pursed their deep red lips and charged at it like an old fashion drag race (and not entirely unlike RuPaul’s, because bitches are fierce). Bejeweled along collars, engines revving at the shoes, they’re off! We win.
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
The Elsa Schiaparelli-Miuccia Prada Costume Institute exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is still months away, but why not get the buzz rolling early on? Backstage after her celebrity-filled men’s show in Milan, Prada appeared not too enthused about the upcoming exhibit, saying: ”It’s too formal. They are focused on similarities, comparing feather with feather, ethnic with ethnic, but they are not taking into consideration that we are talking about two different eras, and that [Schiaparelli and I] are total opposite. I told them, but they don’t care.” Now, her namesake label claims these comments were “taken out of context.”
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Feeling cinematic, Prada chose actor Michael Pitt, of Boardwalk Empire fame, to front their spring 2012 ad campaign, shot by David Sims. For their fall 2011 ads, Prada similarly paired Sims with another actor — the rather unlikely choice of Tobey Maguire — but if Miuccia is known for anything, it’s her love of quirk. And while Pitt is no model, he certainly photographs well. Pics after the jump!
Edited by Jessica Lapidos
Some design stars are household names (at least around our homes, ladies). Others have shaped the industry and runway unbeknownst to the majority. Katie Grand is one of those remarkable individuals who has the foresight to cast trends, style iconic images, and keep major fashion houses running. She, and other movers and shakers across innovative fields are being recognized by the Wall Street Journal. Whether you’re occupying Wall Street or not, these humans are looking into the future and bringing it here and now. See who’s changing the world here.
