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 ...

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

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 ...

is in the process of reviving Schiaparelli, the namesake house of the iconoclastic Italian couturier Elsa Schiaparelli. In Paris this week, a lucky few were given a preview of her world.

“Shocking! The Surreal World of Elsa Schiaparelli” opens with hundreds of the couturière’s detailed fashion drawings printed like wallpaper, plus several originals—including a lithe ...

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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 ...