Continuing her love affair with the world of contemporary art, the fashion designer Miuccia Prada has once again joined forces with Italian multimedia artist Francesco Vezzoli, this time with a ‘pop-up' museum in the heart of Paris. Entitled '24-hour museum', the temporary show has been constructed within the Palais d'Iéna, an historical French political building, and features an illuminated neon cage lining the walls constructed by the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas' AMO agency. Mrs. Prada fêted the ephemeral project with a VIP dinner and champagne reception before opening the doors to the public for one day only.

Vezzoli revealed a series of ten lightbox statues for the occasion, works he simply described as "my icons turned into sculptures and placed on marble pedestals." Referencing the classical sculpture of female goddesses Vezzoli haphazardly collaged the facial features of Hollywood starlets onto the figures, with the instantly recognisable likeness of actresses including Sharon Stone, Eva Mendes, Natalie Portman or Michelle Williams topping off the 2D sculptures. "His (Vezzoli's) work is much more political than he likes to admit. It is about our obsession with celebrity and the way that art wants to stay in a kind of limbo," said Prada.

Through thick velvet drapes, a mirror ball hung above the dance floor in an aptly titled ‘Salon des Refuses' across the hall, in which cardboard cutouts of Vezzoli's rejected icons (namely himself) were seen ‘dancing' among the revellers as Kate Moss hit the decks to DJ the post-dinner party. Sidling in just days after the menswear shows (in a week laden with pre-fall and haute couture) it seems Prada's unapologetic flair for innovation has created the happening on everybody's lips. With not a stitch of clothing necessary.

-Dan Thawley