What was the title of the 2012 Met Gala exhibition pairing Elsa Schiaparelli with Miuccia Prada?

The 2012 Met Gala exhibition pairing Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada was titled Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations.

The exhibition compared two Italian designers from different generations. Elsa Schiaparelli was a major figure of 1930s surrealist fashion, while Miuccia Prada became one of the most influential designers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Its title referred to imagined conversations between the two women, since Schiaparelli died in 1973 and Prada belongs to a later fashion era. The exhibition used video presentations and garments to draw out connections and contrasts in their approaches to art, intellect, femininity, and design.

The show was not a retrospective of only one designer. Its defining feature was the deliberate pairing of Schiaparelli and Prada across time, making the full title especially important.