Elsa, Meet Miuccia: Met Costume Institute Exhibition Will Focus on Schiaparelli, Prada

“Fashion is instant language,” Miuccia Prada has said. That gives curators Harold Koda and Andrew Bolton plenty of material for the conversations they’ll imagine between Prada and Elsa Schiaparelli (1890–1973) for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2012 Costume Institute exhibition. Opening in May, “Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada: On Fashion” will explore the affinities between the two Italian designers from different eras.