MATHEOPOULOS, HELENA
Fashion and opera are natural arenas for collaboration. In 20092010 alone, Viktor & Rolf, Miuccia Prada, Emanuel Ungaro, and Christian Lacroix made successful sorties as costumers for operas in New York, Baden-Baden, Naples, and Berlin.
In this sumptuous new book, leading figures in the world of fashion Giorgio Armani, Marc Bohan, Christian Lacroix, Karl Lagerfeld, Ottavio and Rosita Missoni, Miuccia Prada, Zandra Rhodes, Emanuel Ungaro, Gianni Versace, and Viktor & Rolfare profiled, together with illustrations of their costume designs. Helena Matheopouloss interviews with many of the designers illuminate the journey that led each to the opera and the challenges of working in a demanding new medium.
Costume designs for many well-loved operasincluding Don Giovanni, Lucia di Lammermoor, Carmen, Aida, Thai¨s, Agrippina, Cosi` fan tutte, Attila, and The Magic Fluteare featured. The opera houses commissioning the costume designs include La Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, the The´a^tre Royal de la Monnaie, the Are`nes de Ni^mes, the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, and the San Diego Opera, among many others.
