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Jul 3, 2022 · A new exhibition in Paris on the designer Elsa Schiaparelli shows how her Surrealist “little jokes” still inspire weirdness today. Style | The Mother of Strange Fashion
- Jessica Testa
- Right Place, Right Time
- First Designs
- The Challenge of Synthetics
- Designer Fabrics
- Haute Couture and Embroidery
- Schiaparelli’s Later Years
Schiaparelli’s combination of luck and talent was enhanced by the cultural and economic climate of Paris in the ’20s. She was at the center of the artistic explosion that had started at the turn of the century; she could tap the imagination and skill of many Parisian avantgarde artists. Where art had been staid and artists complacent, now there was...
Women of the Jazz Age and the Roaring Twenties were looking at new directions for their careers and clothing as more options opened to them. They were tired of the simple, boyish look of the early ’20s. And, despite (or because of) the stock-market crash of 1929 and the subsequent gathering war clouds in the early ’30s, women were abandoning themse...
The fashion world was experiencing severe economic changes. As raw materials, especially silk, the mainstay of French haute couture, skyrocketed in price in the late ’20s, garments became more expensive to produce. The textile industry was looking for other kinds of fibers and discovering new manufacturing processes. Schiaparelli took an avid inter...
As a surrealist fashion designer working with unusual shapes and fabrics, Schiaparelli let the world see that it was fun to design. An inverted shoe became a hat; she designed lounging “pajamas” (called palazzo pants in the ’60s) and dresses with the skirts shaped like parachutes. A business-suit jacket had seven large rectangular pockets with butt...
In addition to pioneering designer prints, Schiaparelli was in a league by herself when it came to lavish embroidery in haute couture. Of course, there is historical precedence for magnificently embroidered clothing, in 16th-century Elizabethan England and 18th-century France, for example. Poiret, too, had numerous embroidered garments in his colle...
Even as a child, Elsa had listened to a different drummer. Her intellectual and aristocratic parents had raised her in the cultural and artistic richness of Rome. Elsa considered herself very plain, especially in comparison to her older sister, Beatrice. One day she “planted” morning glory, nasturtium, and daisy seeds in her eyes, ears, and throat ...
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Jul 5, 2022 · Under Roseberry, Schiaparelli has cultivated a new class of fashion eccentrics, like Jeremy O. Harris, Ella Emhoff, Richie Shazam, and Julia Fox, but also dressed Lady Gaga for the inauguration of ...
Jul 1, 2022 · July 1, 2022. Elsa Schiaparelli in her own design. Photographed by George Hoyningen-Huene, Vogue, September 1, 1932. Elsa Schiaparelli, who was known for her amusing prints, outdid herself in...
May 1, 2024 · Elsa Peretti was the jewelry designer at Tiffany & Co. for nearly 50 years, creating iconic styles like the bone cuff, the bean and the open heart. See more here.
- Layla Ilchi
Retrace the fascinating life of Elsa Schiaparelli, the founder of Maison Schiaparelli, from her childhood to her accomplishments and writing her memoirs.
Mar 19, 2021 · Elsa Peretti, designer, former model and philanthropist has died aged 80. One of the most influential jewellery designers of the 20th century, she was associated for more than 50 years with Tiffany, and her designs for the luxury brand became synonymous with the emergence of the modern working woman that no one represented better than herself.
