March 20, 2010 - "Big Bend Country Shopping"
This Prada store is virtually in the middle on nowhere. It is located 40 miles north of Marfa, TX on a highway with no services for 74 miles. I shot this standing in the middle of the 75mph speed limit highway with not much need to worry about traffic :)
There is a side view at http://www.dakotacowboyphotography.com/Photography/Daily-Photo-Proof-Alternates/8374515_pozc7#812887313_pouQm
from 2005 New York Times article-
"....Texas, as big as it is, does not have a Prada store. It does have Neiman Marcus, which carries plenty of Prada merchandise, but the state cannot boast a free-standing store dedicated to Miuccia Prada's expensive shoes and oddly shaped bags.
But on Saturday it is set to look as if a tornado had picked up a Prada store and dropped it on a desolate strip of U.S. 90 in west Texas. That is where Prada Marfa, a permanent sculpture by the Berlin artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset will be installed. (Actually it will go up in Valentine, Texas, about 26 miles, or about 40 kilometers, outside Marfa, a town of 2,400 that has become a magnet for artists and art lovers.)
The sculpture is meant to look like a Prada store, with minimalist white stucco walls and a window display housing real Prada shoes and handbags from the fall collection. But there is no working door. ...."
This Prada store is virtually in the middle on nowhere. It is located 40 miles north of Marfa, TX on a highway with no services for 74 miles. I shot this standing in the middle of the 75mph speed limit highway with not much need to worry about traffic :)
There is a side view at http://www.dakotacowboyphotography.com/Photography/Daily-Photo-Proof-Alternates/8374515_pozc7#812887313_pouQm
from 2005 New York Times article-
"....Texas, as big as it is, does not have a Prada store. It does have Neiman Marcus, which carries plenty of Prada merchandise, but the state cannot boast a free-standing store dedicated to Miuccia Prada's expensive shoes and oddly shaped bags.
But on Saturday it is set to look as if a tornado had picked up a Prada store and dropped it on a desolate strip of U.S. 90 in west Texas. That is where Prada Marfa, a permanent sculpture by the Berlin artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset will be installed. (Actually it will go up in Valentine, Texas, about 26 miles, or about 40 kilometers, outside Marfa, a town of 2,400 that has become a magnet for artists and art lovers.)
The sculpture is meant to look like a Prada store, with minimalist white stucco walls and a window display housing real Prada shoes and handbags from the fall collection. But there is no working door. ...."
March 20, 2010 - "Big Bend Country Shopping"
This Prada store is virtually in the middle on nowhere. It is located 40 miles north of Marfa, TX on a highway with no services for 74 miles. I shot this standing in the middle of the 75mph speed limit highway with not much need to worry about traffic :)
There is a side view at http://www.dakotacowboyphotography.com/Photography/Daily-Photo-Proof-Alternates/8374515_pozc7#812887313_pouQm
from 2005 New York Times article-
"....Texas, as big as it is, does not have a Prada store. It does have Neiman Marcus, which carries plenty of Prada merchandise, but the state cannot boast a free-standing store dedicated to Miuccia Prada's expensive shoes and oddly shaped bags.
But on Saturday it is set to look as if a tornado had picked up a Prada store and dropped it on a desolate strip of U.S. 90 in west Texas. That is where Prada Marfa, a permanent sculpture by the Berlin artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset will be installed. (Actually it will go up in Valentine, Texas, about 26 miles, or about 40 kilometers, outside Marfa, a town of 2,400 that has become a magnet for artists and art lovers.)
The sculpture is meant to look like a Prada store, with minimalist white stucco walls and a window display housing real Prada shoes and handbags from the fall collection. But there is no working door. ...."
This Prada store is virtually in the middle on nowhere. It is located 40 miles north of Marfa, TX on a highway with no services for 74 miles. I shot this standing in the middle of the 75mph speed limit highway with not much need to worry about traffic :)
There is a side view at http://www.dakotacowboyphotography.com/Photography/Daily-Photo-Proof-Alternates/8374515_pozc7#812887313_pouQm
from 2005 New York Times article-
"....Texas, as big as it is, does not have a Prada store. It does have Neiman Marcus, which carries plenty of Prada merchandise, but the state cannot boast a free-standing store dedicated to Miuccia Prada's expensive shoes and oddly shaped bags.
But on Saturday it is set to look as if a tornado had picked up a Prada store and dropped it on a desolate strip of U.S. 90 in west Texas. That is where Prada Marfa, a permanent sculpture by the Berlin artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset will be installed. (Actually it will go up in Valentine, Texas, about 26 miles, or about 40 kilometers, outside Marfa, a town of 2,400 that has become a magnet for artists and art lovers.)
The sculpture is meant to look like a Prada store, with minimalist white stucco walls and a window display housing real Prada shoes and handbags from the fall collection. But there is no working door. ...."
See photo in original gallery.