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10/05/2012 > 19/08/2012



The Met's Spring 2012 Costume Institute exhibition, Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations, explores the striking affinities between Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada, two Italian designers from different eras. Inspired by Miguel Covarrubias's "Impossible Interviews" for Vanity Fair in the 1930s, the exhibition features fictive conversations between these iconic women to suggest new readings of their most innovative work. Iconic ensembles will be presented with videos of simulated conversations between Schiaparelli and Prada directed by Baz Luhrmann, focusing on how both women explore similar themes in their work through very different approaches.

The exhibition will showcase approximately ninety designs and thirty accessories by Schiaparelli [1890–1973] from the late 1920s to the early 1950s and by Prada from the late 1980s to the present. Drawn from The Costume Institute's collection and the Prada Archive, as well as other institutions and private collections, signature objects by both designers will be arranged in seven themed galleries:

"Waist Up/Waist Down" will look at Schiaparelli's use of decorative detailing as a response to restaurant dressing in the heyday of 1930s café society, while showing Prada's below-the-waist focus as a symbolic expression of modernity and femininity. An accessories subsection of this gallery called

"Neck Up/Knees Down" will showcase Schiaparelli's hats and Prada's footwear.

"Ugly Chic" will reveal how both women subvert ideals of beauty and glamour by playing with good and bad taste through color, prints, and textiles.

"Hard Chic" will explore the influence of uniforms and menswear to promote a minimal aesthetic that is intended to both deny and enhance femininity.

"Naïf Chic" will focus on Schiaparelli and Prada's adoption of a girlish sensibility to subvert expectations of age-appropriate dressing.

"The Classical Body," which also incorporates "The Pagan Body," explores the designers' engagement with antiquity through the gaze of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

"The Exotic Body" will explore the influence of Eastern cultures through fabrics such as lamé, and silhouettes such as saris and sarongs.

"The Surreal Body" in the final gallery will illustrate how both women affect contemporary images of the female body through Surrealistic practices such as displacement, playing with scale, and blurring the boundaries between reality and illusion as well as the natural and the artificial.

Schiaparelli, who worked in Paris from the 1920s until her house closed in 1954, was closely associated with the Surrealist movement and created such iconic pieces as the "Tear" dress, the "Shoe" hat, and the "Bug" necklace. Prada, who holds a degree in political science, took over her family's Milan-based business in 1978, and focuses on fashion that reflects the eclectic nature of Postmodernism.

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25/03/2012 > 08/07/2012

A sweeping retrospective of the designer’s 40 years of creativity, Yves Saint Laurent: A Retrospective features a stunning selection of 200 haute couture garments along with numerous photographs, drawings, and films that illustrate the development of Saint Laurent's style and the historical foundations of his work. Organized thematically, the presentation melds design and art to explore the full arc of Saint Laurent’s career, from his first days at Dior in 1958 through the splendor of his evening dresses from 2002. The DAM will be the only United States venue for the exhibition. Special exhibition ticket will be required.

The Yves Saint Laurent Retrospective, which attracted more than 300,000 visitors to the Petit Palais in 2010, will travel to Spain and to the United States in 2011-2012.

The MAPFRE Foundation in Madrid will present 150 models, production drawings and prototypes of hats and garments from October 5, 2011 to January 8, 2012. 200 models will then be shown at the Denver Art Museum from March 25 to July 8, 2012.

Florence Müller is the curator of the exhibition and Nathalie Crinière will design the scenography, which will replicate themes from the exhibition at the Petit Palais.

Each of the models shown should be carefully prepared prior to departure for the exhibition site. Packing this short Bambara evening dress in black raffia with black and red wooden beads, from the haute couture collection, Spring/Summer 1967, took more than half an hour, not including the headdress and accessories. The preparation of a long evening ensemble can take up to one hour.

 
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19/11/2011 > 18/11/2012

A Mighty Civilization. A Mysterious People. A Mythical Past.
This groundbreaking exhibition features 250 artifacts that take you on a remarkable journey through the ancient world of the Maya.

Their history is shrouded in mystery.

Their civilization guided by the stars.

The ancient Maya held many secrets that have for centuries remained buried until now.
Take a journey through the mysterious land of the Maya in this landmark exhibition - a world premiere at the Royal Ontario Museum that features many never-before-seen artifacts.

Discover their sacred rulers, ingenious architectural feats, elaborate writing system, bloodletting rituals and cosmology of death and resurrection.

From the truth behind the 2012 end-of-days legend, to their puzzling collapse, their secrets are finally revealed.

Original ROM footage of historically significant sites in Mexico, touchable models of artifacts, and a series of thought-proving lectures will immerse visitors and parents in an educational and entertaining journey back in time.

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03/02/2012 > 06/01/2013

Welcoming 2012 as the East Asian calendar’s Year of the Dragon, this exhibition presents a global selection of textiles depicting dragons and related fantastical creatures of legend. Dating from the 16th through the 20th centuries, these fabrics reveal how stories of serpent-like creatures with celestial powers found colorful expression in world textile arts. People throughout much of East and Southeast Asia typically viewed dragons and nagas (divine snakes) as beneficent beings associated with water, rainfall, and fertility, and images of these beasts became wide-spread in almost all artistic media. Drawn entirely from the museum’s permanent collection, the textiles in this exhibition reveal legends and imaginative images of mythical creatures as diverse as the peoples who created them. 

 
23/03/2012 > 12/08/2012

Japan has a remarkably refined textile tradition, and for centuries the Japanese have admired the silks produced in the Nishijin neighborhood of Kyoto as the epitome of beauty and opulence. Woven Treasures will feature some of the sumptuous pieces created in one of Nishijin’s oldest and most illustrious workshops: Tawaraya.
With a history stretching back more than 500 years, the Tawaraya workshop is renowned for supplying the Japanese Imperial Household with yusoku orimono—fine silks in patterns, weaves, and color combinations traditionally reserved for the garments and furnishings of the aristocracy, including the Emperor.
Mr. Hyoji Kitagawa, the 18th generation head of the Tawaraya, has been designated a Living National Treasure for his knowledge and preservation of this unique cultural inheritance. The kimono, screens, and other colorful silks in the exhibition demonstrate the technical and aesthetic mastery of the Tawaraya workshop while providing insight into the pageantry and refinement of Japanese court culture. 

08/10/2011 > 28/05/2012



The British experience during and after WWII was quite different from that of Americans. From the fall of 1940 through the spring of 1941, Britain was subjected to relentless bombing in a terror campaign known as the Blitz. Even after the Allied victory, Britain continued to suffer shortages of everyday supplies, and rationing of both food and clothing continued. This exhibition looks at ways that textiles were put into service on Britain’s Home Front in the 1940s. Mass-produced “utility” clothes had to conform to strict government regulations, yet managed to be fashionable. Colorful scarves printed with motifs relating to British life during and after the War—many by the high-end London textile firm Jacqmar—were a practical way to spruce up a look. Utility dresses and propaganda scarves showed how fashion could be used as a powerful weapon to maintain morale in challenging and austere times. During a decade of extreme hardship, rationing and deprivation in Britain, beauty (in measured amounts) was not frivolous, it was a patriotic duty. 

17/09/2011 > 27/05/2012

The embroideries of colonial Boston girls and women have long been treasured family possessions and are now much sought after by collectors. The charm and craftsmanship of the Adam and Eve samplers, pastoral pictures with leaping stags and galloping hunters, as well as crewelwork bed hangings and delicately embroidered baby caps bring to mind a warm domesticity; however, as a group they also reveal much about the lives of Boston women and their role within colonial society.




This is the third in a series of three exhibitions that focuses on the embroideries of colonial Boston and features embroidered furnishing textiles and fashionable accessories. The exhibition examines how Boston’s women and young ladies utilized the needlework skills they learned in their classes to decorate their homes and keep up with fashion.

 
17/04/2011 > 16/09/2012

A major exhibition featuring over 850 works of art from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This diverse group of Andean folk arts includes weaving, embroidery, woodcarving, ceramics, painting, and metalwork, reflecting the interweaving of indigenous craft traditions with European art forms and techniques. The exhibition provides a window into the rich spirit and culture shared by the peoples of this highland region of South America through works ranging from costumes, jewelry, utilitarian items, and toys to those used in religious practices and festivals

 
01/10/2011 > 06/01/2013

Until the mid-twentieth century, Macedonian women wove, embroidered, and wore magnificent ensembles of dress that indicated to a knowing eye what village and region they came from and where they were in the cycle of life. From puberty through betrothal, marriage, child bearing, and old age, dress changed to reflect status change. Historic ensembles, no longer made but preserved in the museum, also illustrate the tumultuous political history of the region; pan-Slavic, Byzantine, and Ottoman influences can be seen in embroidered motifs, materials, garments, and jewelry. The outstanding collection the Museum has dates primarily from 1890 to 1920 with some later pieces from the 1950s. On display will be 27 mannequins in multi-layered ensembles as well as individual garments and pieces of jewelry belonging to Museum of International Folk Art; the Collection was made completed with a recent, large donation from the Macedonian Arts Council» so that it is today the largest and most comprehensive museum collection in the United States.

29/11/2011 > 08/05/2012

The Great Designers: Part One is the first of two upcoming exhibitions that will highlight masterpieces from the Museum’s permanent collection. More than fifty garments and accessories will be featured by designers from Alaia to Zoran, including work by Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, Christian Dior, and Miuccia Prada.

Full portraits of all exhibition objects can be found in the more than 500 full-color photographs included in a major Museum publication available from Taschen in spring 2012 [title still to be determined].

Images of Fashion from the Court of Louis XIV

A Century of Fashion 1900 - 2000

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