The Circus Collection, Elsa Schiaparelli.
Evening coat by Elsa Schiaparelli and Jean Cocteau.
Elsa Schiaparelli: Skeleton Dress, 1938.
Elsa Schiaparelli & Cocteau collaboration.
Elsa Schiaparelli bright pink shoes.
From the past and how a vintage icon can wear a great and humoristic mix of patterns and shades of bright pink, coral colour, dusty orange and faded red.
Ladies & Gentlemen the Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli famously merged Surrealist art with high fashion by using fabrics designed by artists Salvador Dali and Jean Cocteau. Schiaparelli’s early pieces were undecorated but after 1935, opulent embroidery and outlandish accessories became her trademark. Her collaborations with Dali, Cocteau and Paul Delvaux produced clothes that were witty and clever works of art. A unique piece from the hand of Schiaparelli was the hat made in the form as a shoe. Shocking pink was Schiaparelli trademark colour – a colour we have to follow in its many different variations and match in ways and with different colour shades we wouldn’t have thought of a decade ago or a minute ago. Design history develops, what we wear transform into new identity systems and so do the way we look a garments and clothing in general.
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