Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations - The Classical Body

Miuccia.

I don t understand why you find designing

evening wear so difficult.

Because the draping was done so well in history

that what you do with draping?

You can t do anything anymore.

Are you against it?

It s not that I m against, but I think that

I was never able to do probably

a single beautiful evening dress in my life.

For me, I love it so much.

It s like an opportunity for the cloth

to respect the architecture of the body.

Like my Pagan collection.

I did it once, and it was like cotton with metal.

And that idea of draping was done with your hands

so that you pushed your fabric into your body

and that was kind of, for me, a modern way of making

the beauty of the draping.

With your hands? (laughs)

Yes. Because in the fabric there was metal.

Totally impossible, you scratch all the body.

I was the only one who could wear it. (laughs)

There s nothing cliche about that.

[Miuccia] So you did try? Yes, yes.

In fact, one of the objects of my work

recently is to work on those cliches.

And animal print, paillettes, sequins,

because I try, I want to understand why.

Because really women are obsessed by few things, like pink.

Sometimes I also can t resist pink.

Ah, so maybe you will explore the bias cut

and design a beautiful evening dress one day?

Actually maybe this is the idea for my next show!

Ah! So, we have a little secret.

(laughs)