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Preview: Schiaparelli and Prada at the Met's Costume Institute

"Impossible Conversations," the latest exhibit to arrive at the Met's Costume Institute, examines an imaginary rapport between the designers Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada -- two women whose careers never overlapped, but whose eccentric and artistic aesthetics share some similarities.

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Preview: Schiaparelli and Prada at the Met's Costume Institute

Take a look inside the "Impossible Conversations" exhibit, which opens to the public on May 10.

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