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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.
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- Elsa Luisa Maria Schiaparelli, 10 September 1890, Rome, Italy
- Fashion designer
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 ...
Elsa Schiaparelli instilled a creative spirit in 20th-century fashion with her inventive imagination and revolutionary vision on sportswear, Haute Couture, art, fragrance, and ordinary elements turned into elaborate creations.
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In Paris, the most famous Couturier of the age, Paul Poiret,lends her several designs. Retrace the fascinating life of Elsa Schiaparelli, the founder of Maison Schiaparelli, from her childhood to her accomplishments and writing her memoirs.
Jul 3, 2022 · A new exhibition in Paris on the designer Elsa Schiaparelli shows how her Surrealist “little jokes” still inspire weirdness today. PARIS — A woman wears a long thermometer on a hook hanging ...
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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...
Mar 11, 2024 · Recent News. Elsa Schiaparelli (born Sept. 10, 1890, Rome, Italy—died Nov. 13, 1973, Paris, France) 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.