The Brand Is French, But the Woman Is Italian In 1890, Elsa Luisa Maria Schiaparelli was born in Rome as the youngest of two ...

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 ...

A new exhibition in Paris on the designer Elsa Schiaparelli shows how her Surrealist “little jokes” still inspire weirdness today. Credit...Horst P Horst Supported by By Jessica Testa PARIS ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. As a child in the 1890s, the fashion designer Elsa ...

The designer is the subject of a new retrospective at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Embroidered details of the Phoebus cloak from Elsa Schiaparelli's winter 1937-38 collection.

His starting point was very close to home: house founder Elsa Schiaparelli and her ability to endlessly reinvent herself. Specifically, he looked to one of her most memorable looks: a feathered ...

And an avid student of history, incorporating the Surrealist signatures of Elsa Schiaparelli herself into his collections since he took the post in 2019. (Her monogrammed cigarette case was ...

Read more of Schiaparelli’s fascinating story ahead, where InStyle has gathered a crib sheet of key facts about her personal and professional life. In 1890, Elsa Luisa Maria Schiaparelli was ...