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  2. Elsa Schiaparelli (/ ˌ s k æ p ə ˈ r ɛ l i, ˌ ʃ æ p-/ SKAP-ə-REL-ee, SHAP-, US also / s k i ˌ ɑː p-/ skee-AHP-, Italian: [ˈɛlsa skjapaˈrɛlli]; 10 September 1890 – 13 November 1973) was an Italian fashion designer from an aristocratic background.

  3. Apr 5, 2024 · Nov. 13, 1973, Paris, France (aged 83) 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.

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  4. Apr 1, 2012 · 1 April 2012. “In difficult times fashion is always outrageous.”. Getty Images. Elsa Schiaparelli was an Italian fashion designer. Born in Rome in 1890 to an aristocrat mother and scholar father, she went on to study philosophy at the University of Rome before publishing a book of sensual poetry.

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  5. Jul 1, 2022 · Elsa Luisa Maria Schiaparelli is born in Rome, the second of two daughters of a Neapolitan aristocrat, Giuseppa Maria de Dominicis, and Celestino Schiaparelli, a scholar from Piedmont who was...

  6. May 2011. 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 ...

  7. Jul 3, 2022 · The Mother of Strange Fashion. A new exhibition in Paris on the designer Elsa Schiaparelli shows how her Surrealist “little jokes” still inspire weirdness today. Horst P Horst. Share full...

  8. I. Youth. and initiation. to the art world. II. Discovery. of fashion. 1st success. III. Inspired designer. and global. expansion. IV. WWII. and personal. commitment. V. Consecration. and writing. of her autobiography. Elsa Schiaparelli was born in 1890, in the Corsini palace in Rome.

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