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
Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute: Shoes
By BarbaraAnne:
Flipping through the shoe database of the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute, I came across an unexpected similarity. Proportion united two pairs of shoes, made 250 years apart.
In 1700, French ateliers embroidered this pair of ladies’ leather… Continue reading
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+Susan Maxwell Schmidt
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Loosely wrapped, creative, nocturnal, eternally blue, reclusive, eccentric, obsessive perfectionist... in other words, an artist.
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