Remembering Elsa Schiaparelli on her birthday 🎂
📷 André Durst, 1936
"I like to amuse myself. If I didn't, I would die."
📷 André Durst, 1936
"I like to amuse myself. If I didn't, I would die."
Impossible Interview: Stalin versus Elsa Schiaparelli
Vogue, June 1935
Illustration by Miguel Covarrubias
- What are you doing up here, dressmaker?
- I am getting a bird's-eye view of your women's fashions, Man of Steel.
- Can't you leave our women alone?
Vogue, June 1935
Illustration by Miguel Covarrubias
- What are you doing up here, dressmaker?
- I am getting a bird's-eye view of your women's fashions, Man of Steel.
- Can't you leave our women alone?
Stalin versus Elsa Schiaparelli
Vogue, June 1935
Vogue, June 1935
Stalin versus Elsa Schiaparelli
Vogue, June 1935
Vogue, June 1935
Compare the Schiaparelli pose in the Penn portrait (1948) with the Covarrubias illustration (1935)!
Elsa Schiaparelli by Cecil Beaton, 1936
Her arch-rival Coco Chanel always referred to her as "that Italian woman who makes dresses."
Her arch-rival Coco Chanel always referred to her as "that Italian woman who makes dresses."
Jean Cocteau
Elsa Schiaparelli Evening Dress, Harper's Bazaar, 1937
Elsa Schiaparelli Evening Dress, Harper's Bazaar, 1937
The dress Zsa Zsa Gabor is wearing here is by Elsa Schiaparelli. The credit reads: "Miss Gabor's costumes designed & executed by Schiaparelli."
Elsa Schiaparelli by Marie Cosindas
Paris, 1969
"Elsa Schiaparelli was a fashion designer whose clothes grew out of art, not dressmaking. Salvador Dali described her studio in the 1930s as 'the beating heart of Surrealist Paris'."
- @JessC_M
Paris, 1969
"Elsa Schiaparelli was a fashion designer whose clothes grew out of art, not dressmaking. Salvador Dali described her studio in the 1930s as 'the beating heart of Surrealist Paris'."
- @JessC_M
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