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“I cannot clothe them! I need models!” Miuccia Prada “reportedly groaned” when confronted with “curvy” supers hired for the Met’s new production of Attila. [Page Six]
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Yknow what, Miuccia? This is your JOB. You make CLOTHES for PEOPLE to WEAR. Not for human hatracks to drag up and down the runway. People sometimes have these things called “breasts” and “asses”? Make it work, sister.
Boo to her (and boo to the Met for catering to her—tho I can’t imagine they had much choice, at this point in the game. Easier to recast the fatties than find an equally marketable designer… so DOUBLE boo to her ).
I concur. Who does she think she is…Marc Jacobs?
This is just more evidence supporting my suspicion that designers prefer waif-like models purely because they can’t actually design clothing that fits a woman with discernable hips, butt, or bust. Curves are harder to fit, and most designers don’t seem particularly good with a needle.
I mean a sewing needle.
Quite perceptive Pelleas and needs to be said.
Perhaps in this new era of the Emperor’s New Clothes opera productions we’ll be gifted with a stark staring nekkid cast, once Miuccia Prada hauls ass outta there, flinging her perfectly toned arms in the air at the amount of adipose she was forced to deal with.
Bella figura, indeed.
Hear, hear Pelleas, and imagine real women looking this frumpy:
httpv://www.fashion-forum.org/images/designers/miuccia-prada.jpg
BTW: what is going to be done about Violeta Urmana’s curves? Too late for cigarettes, bulimia and heroin to do their magic at this point and even then I don’t see her going down to a flat chested slim-hipped size 4…
Perhaps they will have a cast of models on a catwalk on the stage and the singers in the pit with Mo. Muti? Kate Moss onstage or one of those anorexic Russian girls for Odabella and Mme. Urmana out of sight. Tyson Beckford as Attila and Abdrazakov down below doing the vocals? Markus Schenkenburg standing in for Ramon Vargas?
sounds like some hot fun on stage yeah! lol.
but seriously. how do people feel about La Urmana’s chances as Odabella?
We should have seen it coming. The Devil wears Prada because Prada is the devil.
This whole brouhaha has such a delicious “AbFab” vibe to it.
Dammit! I was trying to find an AbFab angle, too. If we have to have moddles as supers to placate M. P., maybe Yasmin Le Bon as a super, or would Miuccia consider her too “fat” at this stage in her life? Who’s Bubble in all of this?
In all seriousness, though, what body type(s) did she think she would be working with? Or did she think?
To paraphrase Patsy to Edwina: “…your tombstone will bear the legend ‘STILL NO THINNER’”.
Or better, to paraphrase Frank Bruni’s nonna, “Born round, you don’t die square”.
Food for thought.
“That, Patsy, is my father” (referring to her father’s coffin)
“Yes, Edddy, but is it art?”
“If these models get any younger they’ll be chucking fetuses down the runway.”
Curves!
La Cieca, are you feeling all right today??
Make it work, Miuccia!
miu miu would totally lose on project runway
When I read Page Six, I always wonder how it sounds when someone “reportedly groans,” etc.
Squirrel – The second I read the quote, “Project Runway” came to mind. These young, unknown “designers to be” could make clothes for anyone and any size.
Gelb should contact that crazy-ass Christian. He could clothe every cast member in every opera this season.
Siriano aka Mr Peepers would probably be the best choice for Attila costumery, yes
Judging from her picture, Miuccia could play Cyrano without the prosthetics.
She could also go in for the Witch in Hansel and Gretel, in the current Met production. She would not need any of the prosthetics needed by the fabulous Langridge,
Hahaha
So we will have skinny models standing around Urmana, making her look like the last woman who eats pasta in Italy. Ever seen Studer at La Scala as Odabella, surrounded by a bunch of thin, expressionless supers? Apparantly she is the only fat girl Atilla didn’t kill.
As someone who has watched the last few seasons of runway shows from Prada, I can’t tell you how much I’m looking forward to Attila…on the radio.
And if you can’t hear it on the radio, but have tickets for the actual performance, there is still hope. Just because you’re at the Met for Attila, doesn’t mean you have to watch it. I intend to wear a mask with no eye-holes – wait! maybe the gift shop should sell masks?