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Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada Star in Met's Next Big Costume Show

12.10.11

MANHATTAN — Can the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Start ever top the blockbuster Alexander McQueen show, which attracted more than 660,000 visitors , making it the museum's eighth most in demand ever?

The next big show bound to make fashion enthusiasts' radar will concentrate on the Italian designers Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada , Met officials announced on Wednesday.

The show, which will run from May 10 through Aug. 19, will look at how these two designers, from divergent eras, were kindred spirits.

Inspired by a 1930s "Vacuity Fair" series called "Impossible Interviews," curators Harold Koda and Andrew Bolton will beget fictional conversations between the two women, who both pushed the dreamed-up designs mixing mould and art.

Schiaparelli collaborated with Surrealist artists such as Salvador Dali to cut d understand her iconic " lobster dress" — a unpretentious white silk evening dress with a stagger of a red lobster Dali painted on it — that was infamously haggard by Wallis Simpson before she married the Duke of Windsor.

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Moulin Rouge 1952

19.09.11

Drowning the depress in his legs and the grief in his heart with paint and cognac, Lautrec spends his nights at the Moulin Rouge, listening to the calming melodies of Jane Avril (Zsa Zsa Gabor), and being entertained by the can-can of “La Goulue” (Katherine Kath) while absentmindedly sketching on a tablecloth. The head notices his skillful drawing, and commissions Henri to produce a promotional poster for the cabaret. Even as Lautrec crafts the bright and then-risqué poster (his famous La Goulue), an tortured loneliness overtakes him, to the point where he takes the morally-bereft Marie Charlet (Colette Marchand) off the Paris streets on a bit of a whim. Though, for a rhythm, it seems that Marie has come to love Lautrec, he is horrified to find that she has enchanted advantage of him for his money, which she secretly gives to her boyfriend. Depressed and constantly drinking from his furrow walking stick (which he fills with cognac), it seems Lautrec will never start above the stigma of his

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