Eye: Miuccia Prada Meticulously Restores The Past In Shanghai | With A Fiercely Rebellious Feminist Artistry For Spring 2018

Eye: Miuccia Prada Meticulously Restores The Past In Shanghai | With A Fiercely Rebellious Feminist Artistry For Spring 2018 AOC Eye

Prada Renovates Past Decadence in Shanghai

Miuccia Prada and husband, Prada Group chief executive Patrizio Bertelli, opened Prada Rong Zhai, a brilliantly restored heritage mansion in Shanghai's affluent Jing'a District, just north of the former French Concession. 

Miuccia Prada's Punk and the Need for Modern Militance

'Combative' and 'militant' were words front and center in Miuccia's spring 2018 fashion consciousness. The designer has quietly undermined every aspect of bougeois dress throughout her career. After all, as a full-fledged member of Italy's Communist party, Prada reportedly wore regularly Yves Saint Laurent couture. This is testimony to her "profoundly unconventional and willfully contrary spirit", writes Frankel. 

Fondazione Prada Launches Osservatorio Photography Space In Milan

The Fondazione Prada in Milan has opened a new exhibition space called Osservatorio, a cultural center dedicated to photography and visual languages.

Organized by Francesco Zanot -- curator at CAMERA, the Italian Center for Photography n Turin -- Osservatorio's first exhibition is 'Give Me Yesterday'.

Osservatorio—which joins the Fondazione’s Rem Koolhaas designed space in Milan and a space in Venice—is located in Milan’s Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, on the fifth and sixth floors of a building that has been restored from bomb damage dating from the Second World War and turned into an impressive 800-square-meter space.

The new photography space overlooks the glass dome designed by Giuseppe Mengoni that covers the arcade in the Galleria.