Surrealism’s fixation with the corporeal and depictions of the body created natural tangents with the world of fashion. Schiaparelli’s collaborative projects with these artists varied from...

The Italian-born French couturière Elsa Schiaparelli is best known for the iconoclastic bravado and unrestrained, at times brazen, originality of her work. While her contemporaries Gabrielle Chanel and Madeleine Vionnet set the period’s standards of taste and beauty in fashion design, Schiaparelli flouted convention in the pursuit of a more ...

Best known for her surrealist garments—lobster motif dresses, separates with pockets that looked like desk drawers, jackets with 3D butterfly embellishment—Schiaparelli was constantly drawing ...

2024年8月23日 · Italian female fashion designer and couturier, the greatest rival of Coco Chanel, and a friend of Surrealists such as Salvador Dalì and Man Ray, Elsa Schiaparelli became one of the most prominent figures in fashion and art between the two World Wars by turning the fabric into a painting canvas.

2024年11月25日 · Interweaving her aesthetic vision with the dreamlike and extravagant themes of surrealism, she transformed the creation of clothing into true artistic operations. Born in Rome, in Palazzo Corsini, in 1890, Elsa Schiaparelli grew up in a cultured and aristocratic family.

2022年7月3日 · A new exhibition in Paris on the designer Elsa Schiaparelli shows how her Surrealist “little jokes” still inspire weirdness today.

Elsa Schiaparelli (born Sept. 10, 1890, Rome, Italy—died Nov. 13, 1973, Paris, France) was an Italian-born fashion designer who established an important couture house in Paris. She was famous for her Surrealist fashions of the 1930s and for her witty accessories, such as a purse in the shape of a telephone.

2016年1月10日 · While the world may not remember her, evidence of Elsa Schiaparelli’s influence abounds in the very foundation of fashion. A rival of Coco Chanel, she set herself apart from the pack by collaborating with avant-garde artists such as …

Can fashion be a surrealist means of expression? In 1936 a special period began in the research of designer and couturiere Elsa Schiaparelli: it was as if at that point in her career she felt the need to clarify to herself the cultural contents of the work she was doing about the language of …

Elsa Schiaparelli, an Italian-born fashion designer who established herself in Paris in 1922, became one of the most successful women in the industry during the interwar period. This paper closely analyzes Schiaparelli’s most innovative designs, in