Elsa Schiaparelli
Elsa Schiaparelli (born the September 10th 1890 - died the November 13rd 1973) is creative of mode related to the Surréalistes with Paris in the years 1920 and 1930. It is in particular the inventor of the " pink shocking".
Of Italian and Egyptian origin, it was born with Rome. It is the small-niece of Giovanni Schiaparelli, discoverer of the Canaux Martians.
In 1927, it opens in Paris its first store, " For Sport". She creates there sweaters with great nodes in Trompe-l'oeil which make its first success.
She collaborates with surrealist artists such Salvador Dali (which creates a fabric with lobster for one of its dresses), Jean Cocteau, or Alberto Giacometti during the Thirties. She introduces into the vestimentary esthetics of the time dimension symbolic system and the diversion of function, in particular by transforming a escarpin into hat.
In 1936, it launches the perfume Shocking , of which the bottle, representing a chest of woman (moulded according to Mae West) made scandal.
After the Second world war, victim of financial problems, it must close shop and moves in New York where it dies.
She is the grandmother of Berry and Marisa Berenson.
External bonds
- official site
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