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Last June, Men’s Fashion Week in Milan took place a few days after Miuccia P

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问题     Last June, Men’s Fashion Week in Milan took place a few days after Miuccia Prada and her husband, Patrizio Bertelli, who runs the business end of their empire, had raised $2.1 billion with a long-delayed, much ballyhooed initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Both the I.P.O. and Prada’s runway show—a collection of Day-Glo floral prints and nerdy plaids— inspired complaints from Giorgio Armani. "Fashion today is in the hands of the banks and of the stock market and not of its owners," he told the press. He went on to scold Prada for "bad taste that becomes chic." "Her clothes", he added, "are sometimes ugly."
    Armani’s perception was hardly novel, and Prada might not have disagreed—"I fight against my good taste," she has said—though she also might have pointed out that when bankers want a fashion insurance policy they buy one of Armani’s suits. He is the champion of the risk-averse, and Prada has always slyly perverted the canons of impeccability that his brand embodies. Only in the dressing room do you discover that her ostensibly proper little pleated skirts, ladylike silk blouses, and lace dinner suits are a test of your cool. If you can’t wear them tongue-in-cheek, as Prada herself does—thumbing her crooked nose at received ideas about beauty and sex appeal—they can make you look like a governess.
    Invincible female self-possession is a central theme of the joint retrospective that opens in May at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada: Impossible Conversations." Its subjects were born six decades apart, and they never met, though some of their affinities seem almost genetic. They both had strict Catholic girlhoods in upper-crust families, with traditional expectations for women, and they both took heart from maternal aunts whose feistiness defied the mold. Schiaparelli is the more patrician—her mother descended from the dukes of Tuscany—but her father was a university professor, and so was Prada’s. Neither woman set out in life to design clothes, or even learned to sew. They were both ardent rebels and feminists who came of age at moments of ferment in art and politics that ratified their disdain for conformity. Schiaparelli was involved with the Dada movement at its inception in Greenwich Village, after the First World War; Prada was a left-wing graduate student in Milan during the radical upheavals of the nineteen-seventies.
    These heady adventures delayed their careers. Schiaparelli was thirty-seven and Prada was thirty-nine when they delivered their first collections. But experience of the real world, which was a man’s world for both of them, made them intolerant of female passivity and desperation. They don’t really care what makes a woman desirable to men. Their work asks you to consider what makes a woman desirable to herself.
    Andrew Bolton and Harold Koda, the curators of the Costume Institute, originally conceived of the retrospective as "an imaginary conversation," Bolton told me. But, as they began to compile quotations from Schiaparelli and to interview Prada, they realized that this conceit was too tame. It is doubtful that the notoriously touchy Schiaparelli would have been happy about sharing a double bill, even with such an illustrious compatriot, or that Prada would have submitted to comparison with a contemporary. She is widely considered the most influential designer in the world today partly because her enigmatic code is so hard to copy: she changes the password every season.
    The title of the show alludes to a famous column in the Vanity Fair of the nineteen-thirties— "Impossible Interviews"—which was illustrated by the Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias. Among the mismatched sparring partners whom he caricatured with impious glee were Joseph Stalin and Schiaparelli.
    Her "interview" with the dictator appeared in 1936, when she was at the height of her glory, and had recently returned to Paris from a French trade fair in Moscow, where her presence made news. No other couturier had been willing to risk the censure that Schiaparelli received—and shrugged off—for consorting with the Bolsheviks, and, while she was there, she presented a capsule collection of Soviet-friendly fashions suitable for mass production. One of the ensembles was a simple black dress with a high neck, worn under a red coat, with outsize pockets, and a beret.
                                            From The New Yorker, March 26, 2012 [br] Which statement of the following is NOT the common ground of Schiaparelli and Prada?
选项 A、Both of them were born in purple.
B、They were deeply influenced by their aunts.
C、They started their career at a late age.
D、They were in defiance of conformity.
答案 A
解析 本题为细节题。选项A是说她们两个人都出生贵族，这个不甚准确，因为第三段中提到Schiaparelli is the more patrician—her mother descended from the dukes of Tuscany—but her father was a university professor，and so was Prada’s．夏帕瑞丽比普拉达更具有贵族血统，因为她的母亲是托斯卡纳区的公爵后代，不过她的父亲是个大学教授，而普拉达的父亲也是。因此普拉达并没有出生贵族之家，所以选项A错误。
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