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“Miuccia Prada is honoured and proud to take part in this exhibition which is ‘an impossible’ conversation between Miuccia Prada and Elsa Schiaparelli,” a brand spokesperson said. ”The comments printed are taken out of context and therefore misconstrued. Mrs. Prada confirmed that she admires the total curatorial independence of the museum to the extent that they almost did not take into consideration her vision.”

Yeah, it’s totally plausible that “I told them, but they don’t care” was a funny aside said with a self-deprecating chuckle and a playful roll of the eyes. And it’s totally plausible that after making these “out of context” statements, Miuccia went around slapping every underling that dared to even breathe in her general direction, which — when taken out of context — seems like a violent outburst but is really just a little thing the house of Prada does for kicks. [Vogue UK]

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By juxtaposing Schiaparelli’s and Prada’s viewpoints on these topics, museum curators Andrew Bolton and Harold Koda hope to create a dialogue between the designers:

“If we can play with that idea of what Schiap would say, with her real words, and what Miuccia would say, in her real words, on a variety of issues,” Koda explained, “we could end up with something that was a mind-teaser for the audience, and would allow people to see Schiap with increased relevance and Miuccia with a different kind of understanding than they perhaps already have. We want it to be serious in content but playful in its approach.”

This approach will certainly be playful considering who the Met has in charge of the production and design: no other than that master of the spectacular spectacle, Baz Luhrmann. According to Koda, the exhibit will have “a very high-tech aspect” so as to bring the past to life.

On Fashion will run from May 10th to Aug, 19th and will include some 80 designs by Schiaparelli from the late Twenties through the early Fifties and by Prada from the late Eighties through today. The annual Gala — my ticket to which is clearly already be in the mail — will be chaired by Anna Wintour, Miuccia herself and Carey Mulligan — a Prada and Vogue fave as well as the star of Luhrmann’s upcoming adaptation of The Great Gatsby. Hello, multi-brand tie-in.

Amazon.com, who along with Condé Nast is underwriting the exhibit, will serve as the Gala’s honorary chair. [WWD, sub req'd]

Photos: WWD

New York Fashion Week will take place Sept. 13th-20th, followed directly by London from Sept. 21st-25th with Milan squeezed in between from Sept. 19th-25th.  “Italian designers unanimously agreed on the schedule,” continued Boselli, “from the smallest brand to the biggest. They showed great solidarity and Italian pride.”

To me that sounds like one big “Suck it.” The four fashion capitals have been at each others’ heavily bejeweled throats over their respective fashion week dates — well, three of them have. HBIC Paris is too busy shutting. It. Down to care. [WWD]

“I am disgusted. I have no other words. I am disgusted and embarrassed: How can Italy tolerate Silvio Berlusconi and his bevy of girls?” Wintour admonished before going on to call Berlusconi a dictator and hoping that women protest against him during Milan Fashion Week.

Anna Wintour, revolutionary. Next thing you know, she and Franca Sozzani will get all Fidel Castro and Che Guevara — respectively — on Berlusconi and overthrow the Italian government themselves, appointing Miuccia Prada as their titular figurehead.

Vogue‘s HBIC also lauded Italy’s incomparable craftsmanship while criticizing its “compromised” political climate and wondering how people can “tolerate all this?” Well, it’s amazing what people can put up with under the iron thumb of a “dictator.” Just ask any Vogue staffer. [WWD]

Miuccia Prada and Elsa Schiaparelli are reportedly the focus of the Costume Institute’s next exhibit in the spring. Schiaparelli, who is as important to Italian fashion as Gabrielle Chanel is to French fashion, had a groundbreaking and innovative line between the two world wars but was unable to adapt in the wake of Christian Dior’s New Look.

While Prada is obviously one of the most successful and influential women working in fashion today and is also of Italian descent. No doubt the Institute’s curator, Andrew Bolton, will draw some parallels between the two women’s lives and careers. But for now, the Met is remaining mum on the matter. [WWD]

The garment: Yves Saint Laurent “Mondrian” day dress from the autumn 1965 collection

The inspiration: Piet Mondrian‘s famous grid and primary color paintings, like Composition with Yellow, Red, and Blue, 1927 shown above

The history: As the sack dress evolved into the more figure-flattering shift in the 1960s, YSL saw this new shape as the perfect canvas for color blocking. Looking to contemporary artists who fit in with the 1960′s mod vibe, Mondrian’s colorfully linear work was a perfect match for the silhouette.

Photos: YVY Mag

Brigitte Lacombe shot Italian Roberto Cammarelle, American Bernard Hopkins and Pakistani-born Brit Amir Khan for the ads debuting in August.

Then he kicked Miuccia Prada in the ladyparts by blasting her house’s recent IPO (initial public offering) stating that he didn’t need to go public since his company is a strong black woman –  independent and debt-free — while his clothes make men more handsome and elegant.

Enter noted old-man-beater and Tod’s chairman, Diego Della Valle. Valle, referring to Armani as a “sprightly old man,” said the designer’s attack didn’t “make any sense” and instead of playa-hatin’ he should just get in the game and go public himself:

“Rather than criticizing Prada’s strategies, Armani should do the same thing, invest in the territory, as I did in Rome, contributing to the restoration of the Colosseum. In a moment of crisis, it’s important to be part of a team, and it’s our duty to give a signal, not waste time in useless attacks.”

Round 3: Armani takes it to the streets. Armani wrote a letter to Corriere della Sera, Italy’s top newspaper, explaining that he would never compromise his creativity and his freedom by going public:

“I don’t need alliances, complicity, or need to surround myself with international jetsetters. I have too much respect for myself, for the public, and for the people that work both with me and the fashion industry to renounce any sort of intellectual honesty that influences and orients my life, even at the expense of attractive economic opportunities….I don’t need any of the money from the stock exchange — not for growth, not for globalization, not to aggregate my brand.”

The gauntlet has been thrown, or rather, limply tossed out since Giorgio Armani is literally 1000 years old. On the one hand, it’s understandable where he’s coming from. Once you have someone else to answer to besides yourself, there’s a definite loss of freedom. But on the other hand, Armani’s reaction seems more like a defense against the idea of change.

He’s been doing this fashion shtick for 900 years (he got started later in life); he’s used to dressing men a certain way, used to running his business a certain way but fashion never gets used to anything. Prada, which initially resisted an IPO, went public as a strategic business move that will allow for further expansion of the brand worldwide. Whether this will dilute or drastically alter the aesthetic vision, however, is something we’ll just have to wait to see. [WWD]

This is what fashion shows are made of. Prada delivered with innovation, execution and production.

Let’s start off with the set. Prada took their designs and put them on an artificial golf course green. Show attends were spread out in the space sitting on beautifully blue blocks.

The clothes were astounding. The label wanted this man to stand out. To do this they outfitted him in florals, embellished tops, and a number of prints. Miuccia Prada took so many risks and they seemed to have payed off on the runway.

No mens accessory was left unembellished or printed including the golf bag. It’s safe to say that there are not many flashy golf bags on the course, but after this show maybe so more fashionistos will be hitting all 18 holes.

I could literally go on and on about this collection. I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves. After viewing them you might understand how this quickly reached the top of best men shows this season yet.

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- Miucci Prada made 9.7 million euros, or $12.7 million last year.

- Her current 5-year “consultancy agreement” ends in January of next year while her salary will not exceed 9 million euros for the current fiscal year, and 10 million for the next two.

- Meanwhile, her husband and Prada chief executive Patrizio Bertelli earned 10 million euros, or $13 million, and he has a similar “consultancy agreement” and salary caps.

- Both Miuccia and Patrizio own a 33.2% stake in Prada, while Miuccia’s siblings, Alberto Prada Bianchi and Marina Prada Bianchi, control 14.2% each.

- The company has 319 boutiques and 33 franchised stores worldwide with a plan to open 80 directly operated stores this year, 25 in Asia alone.

- Out of all those franchises and boutiques, the “Prada” brand accounts for 207 stores and Miu Miu has 71.

- Sales last year were up 31.1% to $2.75 billion with a net income of $336 million.

- Prada made $2.1 billion in sales last year; Miu Miu made $475 million.

- The European market makes up about 42% of revenue; North America, 14.6%; Asia Pacific, 32% and Japan, 11%

- 71% of business comes from retail and almost 30% from wholesale sales.

- Ready-to-wear accounts for 24% of revenue; footwear, 25% and leather goods, 50%.

- $114 million, 4.2% of revenue, was spent on advertising and promotion last year. [WWD]

Along with its commercial peak, fashion shows have also reached their creative peaks – moving, visceral, dramatic productions that have elevated them into an art form. Alexander McQueen emerged as the true master of the genre, blending the disparate elements of entertainment and ideology while creating beautiful works of clothing that could stand on their own without the hype and hoopla with which he was so famously associated.

Below is a list of the 10 fashion shows that stand as the greatest achievements of the last decade, based on their technicality and theatricality, their influence on fashion and of course, the clothes themselves.

Hailee will be rated on the below categories, five being the highest and 1 being the lowest.

Fit: 4

Appropriateness: 5

Trendiness: 5

Styling: 5

Shoes: 5

Hair: 5

Makeup: 5

Pose: 4

Confidence: 4

Oh little Hailee Steinfeld. Beating down the women three times her age on the red carpet. She looks so chic in this Miu Miu dress, even though it looks a touch old on her. The glitter shoes are to die for and her hair and makeup is truly perfection. Miuccia Prada certainly picked the perfect face for the Miu Miu job.

Miuccia Prada and chief executive officer Patrizio Bertelli own a 95% majority stake in the company and will sell about 15% of that, while Banca IMI-Intesa Sanpaolo Group is expected to sell its 5.1% share, thus meeting Prada’s goal of a 20% public listing.

Whereas Prada’s decision to go public in Hong Kong is an attempt to capitalize on China’s rapidly growing luxury sector, fellow Italians Ferragamo and Moncler, who are also going public, will list on the Italian Stock Exchange.

Despite its record year of profits, Prada still had a debt of $575 million at the end of the fiscal year in January, leading to speculation that going public was a means to get their affairs all squared up. [WWD]

Of course the true Prada shoe here is striped from ankle to toe, and the sole has sneaker traction. These shoes are built to last and born to run, and thus may set you back around $700, if you can find them.

Topshop stripes the sole and weaves the wedge for their Prada iteration. Though not available online yet – they’re keeping us waiting on the good stuff – they’ll hit at $135.

Meanwhile, these yellow Aldo lookalikes run $100, and will undoubtably feel like Aldo’s. Though to be honest, I’m digging the Limoncello sole stripe fused with the light brown leather of the sandal.

Desire though you may, if you can’t actually get your toes on a pair of Prada‘s, at least there are choices out there for us that stem from Miuccia’s inspirations. Until we’re raking in the big bucks and can rest our tootsies in any wedge we damn please, let’s take a moment to appreciate where our new favorite mass market shoes truly come from.

- Teen blogger Tavi Gevinson might be getting disillusioned with fashion. I remember when I first got disillusioned about something…breast feeding was never the same. [Fashionista]

- It seems no matter what Madonna tries to do in, around, or for Malawi, she just can’t get a break. Following the controversy surrounding the perhaps not-so-legal adoption of son, David Banda — and she apparently picked up another African baby, daughter Mercy James along the way — Madge tried to open up a school for girls. Well, that fell through and now 8 former employees of the superstar’s Raising Malawi charity are suing her over the loss of their jobs. Madge, just leave helping out Africa to the pros: Oprah and Angelina Jolie. [Guardian]

Cassavetes’ love the of the private ritual that takes place among women provided the inspiration for the film:

“I love the sense of intimacy. It’s a place away from men, where you can check out other women, and re-glamorize yourself ready to face the world again.”

I guess men don’t really have that sort of intimacy in the bathroom…at least not the kind that doesn’t end in a scandal and public resignation.

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Faye Dunaway out for the kill in 'Mommie Dearest'

Miuccia Prada featured turbans (often sans pants) for her Spring 2007 collection and it was coincidentally the last show of hers that I truly loved.

That collection, and turbans in general, remind me so much of classic Hollywood, when glamor was written in giant lighted bulbs across the screen. Some of the greatest fashion moments have occurred on celluloid, and occurred before most of us were even born. Classic films perfected the art of costuming so that what a character wore was a direct extension of who they were. So a woman in a turban could symbolize power, wealth, glamor, intrigue or just plain old insanity.

Case in point, Gloria Swanson as tragic movie queen, Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard.

She was glamor. She was also crazy. Desmond kills her young gigolo played by William Holden, whom she met after mistaking him for the man who had come to bury her pet monkey. That kind of crazy.

A turban also gave the wearer an air of regal beauty. Lana Turner was absolutely stunning as Cora in The Postman Always Rings Twice, the gold digging femme fatale who plots to kill her husband when she falls for a drifter who recently came to town, played by John Garfield. Okay, there was a lot of crazy flying around back in the day.

Perennial fashion icon, Audrey Hepburn, in the quintessential fashion film, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, dons a turban to sing the plaintive classic “Moon River.” She’s literally wearing a Hanes sweater and a towel as a turban, yet it’s so effortlessly chic and simple. Fun fact, a Hanes sweater cost a whopping  three lizard eggs back in 1961 when this film came out.

The turban doesn’t always have to be for dramatic effect, though it certainly works well as such. It’s a fun accessory that can add a completely different dimension to an outfit, which was what Prada showed all those seasons ago. A shirt can be more than just a shirt. There are infinite possibilities to wear any number of articles of clothing, by adding and subtracting, building and deconstructing. It’s what makes fashion resonate: the ability to transform.

We can’t think of another fashion film that stars trees sprouting from handbags, tiny blue people playing tennis, and twiggy little stick figures sporting ruffle-front dresses. But that’s what Prada is for.

The couple is considering putting Prada shares up for sale in Hong Kong next year. BANANAS!

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Where is all the excitement in all of this hot mess, we know fashion is all about setting and meeting new and inspirational marks but I’m not going to lie, I am not the biggest fan of what could be the next take on fashion and those amazing look books we all creepishly look at. Miuccia Prada’s fashion fantasy for the fall/winter 2010 lookbook is really on the audacious side of how to portray this up and coming season.

“No promiscuous models filled with sex appeal, or bizarre countries that we only dream about in the background…Atleast now we can say we all know what Miuccia Prada dreams about at night…”

Continue the fantasy.

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That’s what we — and Guardian reporter Imogen Fox — really want to know.

The dress, an appliqued Miu Miu creation, is on W, British Vogue and Elle UK. To be fair, we should mention that the dress Lily Allen wears on the cover of Elle is done in a muted lilac lace, while Eva Mendes (on W’s cover) and Swedish model Freja Beha Erichsen (on British Vogue) are both seen in the yellow version.

So how did it happen? We’re flabbergasted, and, well, so is Fox:

Surprisingly, this sort of cover multiplicity is rare. Actors frequently chalk up multiple dresses in the same month, but not magazine covers. There are good reasons for this. Fashion press officers work hard to achieve a delicate UN-style political balance between glossies to make sure that these kinds of overlaps don’t happen. “Usually press offices are pretty good at making sure we don’t get the same dress as our rivals,” says Lorraine Candy, Elle’s editor.

So we have to wonder what happened here — could Miu Miu be so hard up for publicity that it would need to trick three magazines into using its dress? Do we really believe Miuccia Prada is capable of doing something so schemey? No. She’s a sweetheart. And she makes really good clothes — good clothes that, clearly, beg to be photographed.

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How did the same dress end up on three different high-fashion magazine covers? That’s what we — and Guardian reporter Imogen Fox — really want to know.

The dress, an appliqued Miu Miu creation, is on W, British Vogue and Elle UK. To be fair, we should mention that the dress Lily Allen wears on the cover of Elle is done in a muted lilac lace, while Eva Mendes (on W’s cover) and Swedish model Freja Beha Erichsen (on British Vogue) are both seen in the yellow version.

So how did it happen? We’re flabbergasted, and, well, so is Fox:

Surprisingly, this sort of cover multiplicity is rare. Actors frequently chalk up multiple dresses in the same month, but not magazine covers. There are good reasons for this. Fashion press officers work hard to achieve a delicate UN-style political balance between glossies to make sure that these kinds of overlaps don’t happen. “Usually press offices are pretty good at making sure we don’t get the same dress as our rivals,” says Lorraine Candy, Elle’s editor.

So we have to wonder what happened here — could Miu Miu be so hard up for publicity that it would need to trick three magazines into using its dress? Do we really believe Miuccia Prada is capable of doing something so schemey? No. She’s a sweetheart. And she makes really good clothes — good clothes that, clearly, beg to be photographed.

Image via The Guardian

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And it was worth the wait!

Lady GaGa was looking as gorgeous as ever sitting next to Miuccia Prada at the Costume Institute Gala on Monday night.

As we mentioned before, Gagita opted for a simple Prada black shawl-collar tuxedo after her performance rather than a gown of some sort.

We like!

We’re also LOVING that gray hair!

Image courtesy of Prada.

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Miuccia Prada presented her A/W10 Miu Miu collection in a magnificent Parisian villa – number 34, Avenue Foch. Willy Vanderperre was there to capture the magic. Check out the exclusive film on Another.

The designer behind Miu Miu and Prada apparently only likes her girls one size: model.

While working on the upcoming production of “Attila” for the Metropolitan Opera, the designer reportedly refused to work on the “curvy” performers, stating that she only designs for the insanely thin.

“I cannot clothe them! I need models!” she reportedly groaned.

Apparently, the Met is now on the hunt for clothes hangers to give to the thin obsessed designer.

A rep for the opera company told the Post that casting “is at the discretion of the creative team. Due to a change in concept, the Met is in the process of recasting” some of the extras.

Miu Miu’s spring 2010 show in Paris brought about many different patterns. From shoes to jackets, a majority of the items were covered in playful images—cats, birds, and daises to name a few. The motif’s transcended beyond the garments as details on numerous bags that also were shown as part of the collection.

The images all made a bold statement down the runway, but my favorite had to be the cat design.

Miuccia Prada had it raining cats and dogs (and birds!) at her Miu Miu Spring 2010 show in Paris. Prints were in full effect throughout the collection, decorating several high-waisted pantsuits, severe collared button ups, cropped jackets and pencil skirts. Some pieces ever aired on the revealing side, allowing sneak peeks of belly skin beneath the layers of tailored suiting. Long, scraggly braids complimented the looks well, adding a touch of carefree innocence to the collection.

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From Miuccia Prada to United Bamboo…cats are the next big thing!

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She told Vogue that “Miuccia Prada as her style icon. To work with Prada or Miu Miu would be the dream. I adore Prada. Miuccia Prada never follows others – I’m so excited to see each new collection.”

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When asked about models tripping up in her runway shows, Miuccia stated she enjoys the occasional faceplant.

In an interview for the September Issue of W magazine, Miuccia made this startling statement.

“I liked it,” she said, smiling, careless of her teen models’ obvious anxiety. “It made the show more interesting.”

Right, cause your amazing designs weren’t enough.

We personally love us a good runway fall. Here are some highlights: RUNWAY FALLS

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A couple months ago we told you about Miu Miu tapping Katie Holmes for Spring 2009.

Vogue UK has just unveiled one shot from the campaign.

Shot by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, Katie wears a Miuccia Prada-designed dress. The shoot was reportedly inspired by Fellini films and is intended to radiate “mystery and theatricality.”

I’ve always thought Katie photographed well. And while I dislike the short hair on her, the true-to-Miu Miu lighting and styling suit her well.