Prada Marfa is not in Marfa proper, but instead a 40-minute drive west, outside Valentine. There’s a paradox sitting in the West Texas desert: a Prada store, with thousands of visitors but no customers. As one drives toward the artwork it will appear to be a large minimalist sculpture, as one gets closer it will look like a luxury boutique where a display of Fall 2005 high-heel Prada shoes and bags will be seen through the store front windows. Police: Man ‘brandished’ gun during West Haven jewelry store Nevarez’s district includes Presidio County, where Prada Marfa is located. They had not returned since they first installed Prada Marfa on the dusty road in 2005. This artwork is a duplicate of the name of a Prada store that only sells a range personally selected (by Miuccia Prada) shoes. Prada Marfa is an artwork initiated by ourselves and realized in a collaboration with the not-for-profit cultural organizations Art Production Fund and Ballroom Marfa in 2005. The print refers to a piece of art by Elmgreen and Dragset close to the village Marfa. 'The work is located on the outskirts of Valentine, Texas near Marfa on desolate ranching land with no other visible trace of civilization. The Prada boutique of Marfa shows seriously concerned details for its small size; it was the owner of the brand in person who selected the articles to display. Costing a sum total of $80,000—or, put another way, about 40 Prada handbags—Prada Marfa opened on October 1st, 2005. The vandalization of Elmgreen and Dragset's sculpture Prada Marfa brought a lot of attention to the work, Greg Harman writes in the Houston Press. Prada Marfa, Valentine, Texas, United States. Prada Marfa, the art installation and tourist attraction located in the remote desert of Valentine, Texas, was found to be vandalized in a mystery attack early on Sunday morning. It is designed to resemble a prada store and the installations door is nonfunctional. It’s also not a store, but rather a store-shaped, free-standing sculpture conceived of by Scandinavian artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset and commissioned by Ballroom Marfa and Art Production Fund.Built 15 years ago, Prada Marfa borrows elements from pop art, minimalism, and land art. Stylish poster of Prada Marfa, known from Gossip Girl. On the show you can see a gigantic print of this poster in Lily and Rufus' house. Gallery-hoppers in Marfa started scanning eBay daily, awaiting the re-emergence of the stolen Prada shoes (all for the right foot) and bags, while local sheriff Tom Roberts told the press he was on the lookout for a one-legged woman with a … PRADA MARFA is a sculpture by artists Elmgreen and Dragset, situated about 2.3 km from Valentine, Texas. It was not a work commissioned by the fashion brand Prada nor had the fashion brand any involvement in the creation of this work. 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