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Elsa Schiaparelli (1890–1973) was an Italian fashion designer. Along with Coco Chanel, her greatest rival, she is regarded as one of the mos...

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Evening Dress (Skeleton Dress), 1938 Collection of the Salvador Dali. Fundacio Gala-Salvador Dali, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 2017; Courtesy of © Schiaparelli archives.

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A pioneering Parisian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli was born on September 10, 1890, in Rome, Italy. After working at a boutique in New York, Schiaparelli moved to Paris, where she began…

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Elsa Schiaparelli couldn’t sew and she didn’t sketch, yet she stormed Paris fashion in the 1920s and 1930s. Along with Coco Chanel, her greatest rival, she is regarded as one of the mo…

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A starfish made from diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and pearls would go limp when picked up and could be arranged to cling to a wearer’s arm—or even a breast.

Twentieth-Century Fashion in Detail (V & A Fashion in Details) : Valerie D. Mendes, Claire Wilcox

Get the Look: Elsa Schiaparelli Wit, innovation, transformation, freedom, defiance, chic—and shock. How many of us would dare to take fashion...

A new book on early-20th-century Italian-born couturier Elsa Schiaparelli— by master biographer Meryle Secrest — makes a strong argument for not only re-examining her status in the fashion firmament, but also her role as an avant-garde artist, in the same camp as her friends and collaborators Salvador Dalí and Jean Cocteau.

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Elsa Schiaparelli Shocking Pink dress illustration

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