Elsa Schiaparelli at the Metropolitan Museum
By BarbaraAnne:
On May 10, 2012, the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art will reopen with an exhibition juxtaposing the work of Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada.
I have always been familiar with Prada, but discovering Schiaparelli’s… Continue reading
The Blouse That Wasn’t
By BarbaraAnne
When is a blouse, not a blouse? When 20/20 hindsight recognizes that a rare, first design of an item represents a marker, which changed the history of ideas.
The nuns at the orphanage taught her to sew. “She… Continue reading
-
+Susan Maxwell Schmidt
-
Loosely wrapped, creative, nocturnal, eternally blue, reclusive, eccentric, obsessive perfectionist... in other words, an artist.
-