The Surreal World of Elsa Schiaparelli – tells us squarely that it celebrates the early 20th-century couturière, rival of Coco Chanel and friend to Man Ray, Cocteau and Dalí, the culture of 2 ...

Elsa Schiaparelli, who was known for her amusing ... Closing out the show are homages to Schiaparelli by a number of 20th-century designers, including the maison’s current artistic director ...

A new exhibition in Paris on the designer Elsa Schiaparelli shows how her Surrealist ... attention that is stronger today than in the 20th century. There is “a hunger to stand out,” he ...

Since reopening in 2012, the historic house of Schiaparelli has been behind some of the most memorable fashion moments of the ...

You might say the history of 20th century fashion boils down to the 1930s face-off between Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli. Though it is Christian Dior’s 1947 New Look that’s often cited as ...

As a child in the 1890s, the fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli ... than half a century later, that her face would bloom “like a heavenly garden”. Instead, she nearly choked. Schiaparelli ...

When Elsa Schiaparelli was creating her work in the early twentieth century, she was distinctly ahead of her time. Free from the confines of high society, Schiaparelli worked alongside the ...

Opening night on Rue Fontaine in Montmartre in May 1950 was so full of old and new friends—fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli and ... in the first half of the century had largely faded away ...

The Schiaparelli designer kicked off Paris Couture Week with a celebration of opulence rooted in historic forms and turn-of-the-century embroidery ... described founder Elsa Schiaparelli’s ...