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Jul 1, 2022 · Elsa Schiaparelli, who was known for her amusing prints, outdid herself in July 1937 with a particularly clever “passion thermometer” motif that depicted mercury rising between the poles of ...
Elsa Schiaparelli ( / ˌskæpəˈrɛli, ˌʃæp -/ SKAP-ə-REL-ee, SHAP-, [1] [2] US also / skiˌɑːp -/ skee-AHP-, [3] [4] Italian: [ˈɛlsa skjapaˈrɛlli]; 10 September 1890 – 13 November 1973) was an Italian fashion designer from an aristocratic background. [5] She created the house of Schiaparelli in Paris in 1927, [6] which she managed ...
Oct 11, 2014 · 1 of 1. i. View slideshow. Elsa Schiaparelli, known as the Queen of Fashion, was the supreme innovator of dress design in the first half of the 20th century. Based in Paris, she seemed to know ...
Oct 2, 2014 · Elsa Schiaparelli Early Life "Perhaps she was not so much rejected as considered a nuisance by parents too busy, too self-absorbed, or too emotionally distance to give her the affection she...
Apr 1, 2012 · 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. The controversial book shocked her family and, as a result, she was sent to a convent. Schiaparelli soon went on hunger strike ...
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Oct 13, 2017 · Elsa Schiaparelli was the first to design a jumpsuit. Salvador Dalí made the first artist video. ... To be a Surrealist was to revel in contradiction, and Dalí’s and Schiap’s work rejected ...
Jan 10, 2016 · In 1954 Elsa Schiaparelli declared bankruptcy and retired from the fashion world to pen her autobiography “Shocking Life”. The business failure meant that Schiaparelli’s name is not as well remembered as that of her great rival.
