Liz Diller and Carrie Mae Weems in Conversation at Prada
The night before staging its resort show in Manhattan, Prada kicked off a series titled Prada Invites, a collection of projects engaging various artists and creatives in the “universe of nylon,” Prada’s signature fabric, as the brand describes it. First up was a conversation between architect Liz Diller and artist Carrie Mae Weems; Diller, along with Cini Boeri and Kazuyo Sejima, designed a piece for Prada shown last September, and she took the stage to explain “The Envelope” garment bag she created as well as her career highlights including The Shed at Hudson Yards and the High Line. Of designing the garment bag dress for Prada, she said she was excited by the turnaround time, which was only a matter of weeks before it was on the runway. “We don’t work fast in architecture,” she said. “So this was a really fun and fast assignment.” Diller and Weems are partnering together on a next large-scale project, due in 2021 or 2022. “I think that we have a lot in common even though our work is very, very different,” Diller told Weems. “This concern about space and the politics of space and the coating that we basically inherit in our buildings and our institutions in
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