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Elsa Schiaparelli
Elsa Luisa Giovanna Maria Schiaparelli was an Italian fashion designer from an aristocratic background. She created Maison Schiaparelli in Paris in 1927, which she managed from the 1930s to the 1950s. Starting with knitwear, Schiaparelli's designs celebrated Surrealism and eccentric fashions. Her collections were famous for unconventional and artistic themes like the human body, insects, or trompe…
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business · Italian fashion designer and couturier (1890–1973) · fashion designer · businessperson · jewelry designer · also Elsa Schiaparelli, Schiaparelli
Born 10 September 1890 · Died 13 November 1973 · Q464023
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 2 entries
Women's Wear Daily: Giacometti’s Buttons for Elsa Schiaparelli Outstrip Expectations at Auction
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AOL: Elsa Schiaparelli Was the Queen of Surrealism—All About the Late Designer
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2022· 3 entries
Town & Country: Shocking! The Surreal World of Elsa Schiaparelli Opens at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs
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Yahoo: Shocking! Elsa Schiaparelli at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs
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Schiaparelli was included in Ferren Gipson's book exploring feminine arts and feminist art
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2014· 3 entries
In 2014, Marisa collaborated with Hubert de Givenchy to publish the book Elsa Schiaparelli's Private Album which reproduced photographs from her grandmother's personal archives.
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Marisa collaborated with Hubert de Givenchy to publish the book Elsa Schiaparelli's Private Album which reproduced photographs from her grandmother's personal archives
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This company was transformed to a fashion house with the trade name Schiaparelli
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2007· 1 entry
By Italian businessman Diego Della Valle
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1973· 1 entry
Died 1973-11-13.
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1957· 1 entry
Schiaparelli created a company mainly for her perfume licences
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1954· 1 entry
Schiaparelli published her autobiography Shocking Life and then lived out a comfortable retirement between her Paris apartment and her house in Tunisia
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1951· 1 entry
And finally closed down the heavily indebted design house in December 1954, the same year that her great rival Coco Chanel returned to the business
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1937· 3 entries
Schiaparelli collaborated with the artist Jean Cocteau to produce two of her most notable art-themed designs for that year's Autumn collection
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Sketched designs for a shoe hat for Schiaparelli, which she featured in her Fall-Winter 1937–38 collection
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Schiaparelli became the first couturier to show shoes by Roger Vivier
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1936· 1 entry
Schiaparelli was one of the first people to recognise the potential of Jean Schlumberger who she originally employed as a designer of buttons
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1935· 1 entry
And the mixed-media Lobster Telephone (1936)
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1934· 1 entry
Time placed Chanel in the second division of fashion, whereas Schiaparelli was one of "a handful of houses now at or near the peak of their power as arbiters of the ultra-modern haute couture
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1933· 1 entry
Dalí was photographed by his wife Gala Dalí with one of her slippers balanced on his head
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1931· 2 entries
Using the luxury silks of Robert Perrier, and the business went from strength to strength, in 1935, culminating in a move from Rue de la Paix to acquiring the renowned salon of Louise Chéruit at 21 Place Vendôme, which w
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Schiaparelli's divided skirt—a forerunner of shorts—shocked the tennis world when worn by Lili de Alvarez at Wimbledon in 1931
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1930· 2 entries
Is credited with having produced the first evening dress with a matching jacket
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Offered a two-sided model with armholes on each side, brought together in the front of the garment and wrapped and tied at the waistline
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1928· 1 entry
De Kerlor was murdered in Mexico under circumstances never fully revealed
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1927· 1 entry
Which she managed from the 1930s to the 1950s
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1924· 1 entry
Schiaparelli and de Kerlor were eventually divorced in March 1924.
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1921· 1 entry
The 18-month-old Gogo was diagnosed with polio, which proved a stressful and protracted challenge for both mother and child
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1918· 1 entry
Where they continued their activities as they had done in New York
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1915· 1 entry
The couple were forced to leave England after de Kerlor was deported following his conviction for practicing fortune-telling, then illegal
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1914· 1 entry
They married shortly thereafter in London on 21 July 1914; Schiaparelli was twenty-three, her new husband, thirty.
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1890· 1 entry
Born 1890-09-10.
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