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Apr 11, 2014 · In the 1940s, although Schiaparelli continued to design, the fashion scene changed drastically. During World War II, Schiaparelli was actively involved in her business; but when the Germans occupied Paris, she turned her house over to the Quakers for the benefit of refugees.
World War II led Schiaparelli to move to the United States, where her daughter Gogo lived, but she continued to keep her Parisian atelier open, relocated to 21 Palace Vendôme. The great success of Christian Dior and his New Look and the end of the Second World War, began the twilight of Elsa Schiaparelli’s incredible career.
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Juggling her Bohemian lifestyle, part-time jobs, her husband’s repeated absences and taking care of her daughter, Elsa asked for a divorce. In 1922, she moved to Paris with her daughter because Europe seemed to be ahead in terms of the treatments that Gogo needed. During the day, Elsa worked at an antique dealer’s.
Jul 1, 2022 · The Surreal World of Elsa Schiaparelli” is set to open on July 6 at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. ... Elsa Luisa Maria Schiaparelli is born in Rome, the second of two daughters of a ...
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 ...
During World War II, Schiaparelli left her business in the hands of a trusted assistant and moved to New York. As Italy was a German ally at the time, her presence in Paris was “risky,” but she continued to help the French people from afar.
The first major retrospective exhibition and catalogue to examine the ways in which Elsa Schiaparelli’s creations mirrored the social, political, and cultural climate of her times.
