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 what women wanted before ...

Shock and Awe Model Guinevere Van Seenus wears the designer's shocking-pink dress (fall 1937), silk-velvet bolero with metal embroidery by Lesage (fall 1938), and Starburst earrings, c.mid-1930s.

It was an original Shocking by Schiaparelli loose powder box, found at an L.A. flea market by a friend, that inspired 1998’s now-classic shocking-pink lipstick, Schiap.

Italian designer Elsa Schiaparelli had a real knack for dreaming up things women didn’t know they wanted to wear. Read more of Schiaparelli’s fascinating story ahead, where InStyle has ...

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 ...