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"   Photo: Getty Images  Baz Luhrmann&amp;#039;s acting as &amp;quot;Creative Director&amp;quot; of the Met&amp;#039;s 2012 costume exhibition, &amp;quot;Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada on Fashion,&amp;quot; and part of the interview the director conducted with Prada has made its way into WWD. In it, the designer says she&amp;#039;s not quite thrilled with the museum&amp;#039;s representation of her work: It&amp;#039;s too formal; they are focused on similarities, comparing feather with feather, ethnic with ethnic, but they are not taking into consideration that we are talking about two different eras, and that [Schiaparelli and I] are total opposite. I told them, but they don&amp;#039;t care. Prada goes on to say that, &amp;quot;my way of thinking is there, at least in speech,&amp;quot; indicating that her point of view will be told through Luhrmann&amp;#039;s text, not necessarily through the grouping of clothes. That she&amp;#039;s not entirely convinced of the similarities between her and Schiaparelli isn&amp;#039;t surprising\u2014the two have little in common other than that they&amp;#039;re both Italian women who&amp;#039;ve had (and continue to have) a tremendous influence on fashion\u2014but that the Met doesn&amp;#039;t care seems unlikely. If true, they&amp;#039;re bound to change their tune now that the industry&amp;#039;s buzzing with Prada&amp;#039;s discontent. Though it&amp;#039;s too late to change the premise of the exhibition, maybe they&amp;#039;ll refrain from trying so hard to make similarities happen. In other news, it was announced late last week that both Michelle Williams and Carey Mulligan will co-chair the gala. Here&amp;#039;s hoping one of them wears Schiaparelli! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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